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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ˈsɒndhaɪm/; born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of The New York Times as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater". His best-known works as composer and lyricist include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, and Passion. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.

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Nice is different than good.

Different, Good, Nice

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

Different, Interesting, Kinds, See, Two, Ways

The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?

Man, Men, Remember, Remembers

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

Broadway, Growing, Growing Up, Show, Thing

I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

Computer, Done, Newspaper, Reader, Writing

If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

Fall, Falling, Fifth, Girl, Red, Song

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

Money, People, Producers, Sometimes, Takes

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Art, Beauty, Like, Mystery, Song, Surface

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Adventure, Bean, Cows, Difference, Differences

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Gambling, Idaho, Nice, Puzzle, Solution

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Beans, Ends, Justifies, Justify, Right

You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.

Good, Nice, Right, Witch, World

Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake. . On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back NEVER LOOK BACK. . . . Follies

Back, Dream, Dreamers, Mistake, Sweet

Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.

Important, Lying, Size, Tells, Tiny

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.

Ambition, Celebrity, Clothes, Collector, Hands, Mother

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

Embarrassed, Hearing, Rehearsal, Rehearsals, Sing, Stuff

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

Children, Ideas, Kings, Musical, Recycled, Same

Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. " That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. " How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!

Blow, Hot, Piping, Player, Tell

The only reason to write is from love.

Love, Reason, Write, Writing

My main goal is to tell a story.

Goal, Stories, Story, Tell

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