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When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
Poet
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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