Stephen Sondheim Quotes

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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WritingStartYouKnowWayWell

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Jim Barksdale

TruthFeelPointTelling The Truth

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

John Amos

OilNeverMexicoSeenLargeGulf

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

Michael Eisner

TeamBasketballMuchThingGolfer

Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.

Amitabh Bachchan

GreatFoodTogetherDressChanges

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

Simon Rattle

FootballPeopleYouTrainPlay

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

Mary Harris Jones

MenMountainFightMeLookLabor

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Michel de Montaigne

ManMeLovedFindWhyReason

There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.

Michael Landes

EducationGoodBusinessJobMore

Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.

Allyn Rachel

FacePersonSometimesWantMore

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

Philip J. Kaplan

RidiculousWayGotGoingLastLike

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Richard Lederer

GoodHistoryLanguageWayVocabulary

At the end of the day I'm just Linda, and Linda is a single professional woman, and a lot of women can relate to what I talk about.

Linda Sanchez

WomenDayWomanEnd Of The DayEnd

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