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Stephen Sondheim

"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."

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"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."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

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"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

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"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

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"We have not the time to take our time."

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"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

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"Laws are silent in time of war."

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

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"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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"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
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"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead."
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"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
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"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."
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