#de

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#competitiveness #corporal #daring #decent #energy

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#either #everyone #given #i #play

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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#audience #believe #breathe #chance #costume

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#audience #cry #feel #getting #i

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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#got #like #musical #same #song

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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#between #difference #fade #into #live

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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#aware #hardest #lyrics #make #music

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien! ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #considered #first #i #jackson

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#charms #depression #fits #melancholy #minus