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Stephen Sondheim

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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Donna Grant

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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Donna Grant

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."

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Donna Grant

"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."

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Donna Grant

"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."

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Donna Grant

"I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them."

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Donna Grant

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

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Donna Grant

"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."

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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
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

Art

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Stephen Sondheim
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."

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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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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
"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."

Music

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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."

People

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Stephen Sondheim
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."

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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
"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."

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