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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#best #bring #different #live #makes

Nice is different than good. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#good #nice #than

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#by the time #flawed #i #professional #time

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#each #interfere #life #other #personal

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#country #down #dumber #get #gets

I want to keep my private life private. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#keep #life #private #private life #want

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#create #disbelief #fourth #having #i

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. ↗

— Johann Hari

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