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Stephen Sondheim

"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."

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Amber Hurdle

"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

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Amber Hurdle

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."

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Amber Hurdle

"Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted."

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Amber Hurdle

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

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Amber Hurdle

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

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Amber Hurdle

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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Amber Hurdle

"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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Stephen Sondheim
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."

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Stephen Sondheim
"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."

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Stephen Sondheim
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."

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Stephen Sondheim
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."

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Stephen Sondheim
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."

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Stephen Sondheim
"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man."

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Stephen Sondheim
"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."

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Stephen Sondheim
"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."

Work

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Stephen Sondheim
"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."

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Stephen Sondheim
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."

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