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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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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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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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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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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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