"I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music."

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Source : "'On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 21, 2010.

Stephen Sondheim

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“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.”
“To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.”

Source : Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press
“One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.”

Source : Marilyn R. Chandler, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (1990). “Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography”, Taylor & Francis
“I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.”
“Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.”
“I think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.”
“I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.”
“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”

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