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Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
- Stay a child while you can be a child.
- Every day a little death.
- The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you...
- Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.
- The only reason to write is from love.
- Music is structure out of Chaos
- So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
- I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
- There's something inimical about the camera and song.
- Writing is a form of mischief.
- Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
- The art of making art, is putting it together....
- I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
- Nice is different than good.
- By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
- Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
- Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
- My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
- A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
- Gotta watch out for directors.
- 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.
- I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
- I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
- The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento