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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.
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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
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I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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