Stephen Sondheim Quotes

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Stephen Sondheim

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Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

John Crowe Ransom

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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

Robert Sheckley

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I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub.

Matthew Lewis

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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Ann Bancroft

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No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

Michael Franti

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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Stephen Carter

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King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers.

Stephen Kinzer

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A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm.

Tom Ford

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For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

Rufus Sewell

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I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Martin Scorsese

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Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Jon Lester

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As women, we feel we can't ask for things. There's been a lot of research done recently and, more often than not, if a woman goes in to ask for a raise, she'll get it. But she's thinking, 'Do I deserve it? I've got to give a list of why I deserve it.' Whereas a man will just go in and ask for a raise. It's so scary.

Christina Hendricks

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