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Stephen Sondheim Quotes

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Stephen Sondheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Song Story Enjoy Back Stage Singer

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

Jermaine Dupri

People Me Doing Long Know Ask

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.

Michael Leunig

Great Loneliness Think Lonely Wander

You see, I've never really studied acting.

Diana Ross

You Acting Never See Really Studied

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

Derek Jeter

Baseball Forward Doing Look Schedule

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

Douglas Wood

Love You Want Kind Write See

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

Chrissy Metz

Alone Brother Parents Me Mom Sister

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Time People Long Seeing Circle Rock

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

Anthony Carmona

Fear Rain Ugly Snake Forest Someone

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

Pierce Brosnan

Life Tough Boots You Table Actor

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.

Princess Beatrice of York

Challenge Struggle School Reading

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Nile Rodgers

Believe Philosophy Records Hit

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

Myles Munroe

History Trying Nothing Difficult