Stephen Sondheim Quotes

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Stephen Sondheim

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TimeSongStorySpeechTryingYou

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

Jim McKay

GoodMoneyYourselfCoolFeel Good

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

John Calvin

WomenMenPastNowWantReason

I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.

Maya Hawke

TechnologyTimeHatePeopleYoung

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Michael Caine

UpScreenThoughHeAroundFinest

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Shiv Khera

FamilyRelationshipLosingValues

In our 21st-century celebrity culture, we seem to demand an all-or-nothing verdict on any departing figure of public stature.

Tom Tancredo

CultureCelebritySeemDemandOur

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.

Miguel de Icaza

PeopleWillUsDevelopNetLots

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

Molly Antopol

ExperienceStoryGoingWorkingSense

What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting.

Christopher Voss

GreatMyselfThinkNegotiation

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

Sharron Angle

TeaPeopleOrganizationStartThink

Because of her life, I've been able to say, 'If Oprah can make it, I can make it.' I look at Oprah and was saying to a friend, 'If you wanted to have a checklist for all the reasons why someone would give up or say, 'I'm not going to make it,' or, 'I'm not worthy,' she pretty much has had all of those things on her list.'

Kim Hawthorne

LifeFriendSayingSomeoneYouLook

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame

GoodManArgumentWillOwnAgree

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