#ear

Let all the learned say what they can, 'Tis ready money makes the man. ↗

— William Somerville

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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

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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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#his #just #know #shakespeare #start

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#because #felt #rehearsing #scary

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#grow #how #learn #less #more

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#am #being #channeling #doing #hear

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#after #alone #been #day #depends

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. ↗

— Sophocles

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