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Stephen Sondheim Quotes

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.

Stephen Sondheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1930

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Go Way Listen Out Just Avoid

There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.

Good Music Best I Am People Talking

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.

World Thought You Look Sometimes

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.

Robert J. Shiller

Fear Result Circle Economy Despair

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Life Business Courage Risks Me You

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Good Song Why Film Get Role

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

Townes Van Zandt

Best Do Your Best Think Doing You

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Simon Conway Morris

Life Theatre Place Drama Understand

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

Work Good School People Friends You

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

Clouds Nostalgia Real Honest Mystic

A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it was vandalized so much, it was finally taken down for good.

Good Welcome People Down New Used

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

Life Think My Life Powerful Early

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.

Community I Am Think Doing You Say

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