"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
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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.“
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"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
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"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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"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."
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"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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-Marilyn Monroe
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
-Rita Mae Brown
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"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
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"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
-Steve Jobs
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