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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
Stephen Sondheim

Best, Original, Recording

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Elon Musk

Best, Yourself, Single

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.
Mary Schmich

Job, Done, Down

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed

Art, Reality, Learn

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel Washington

Good, Open, Material

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
John Cage

Music, Means, Culture

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Book, Put, Keep

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
David Mamet

Job, Political, Writing

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
Russell Baker

Fear, Nothing, Wrong

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.
Edward Norton

Experience, Person, Made

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
Dean Koontz

Work, Book, After

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
Dean Koontz

Time, Away, Hands

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
Twyla Tharp

Mother, Children, High

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul

Woman, Writing, Two

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Christopher Walken

Play, Between, Whether

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.
Eliot Spitzer

Sports, Made, Result

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?
Colin Firth

Big, Often, Actor

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
Wole Soyinka

Morning, Writing, Learned

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.
Jason Reitman

Character, Find, Away

I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.
Jason Reitman

Feeling, Hand, Top

It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
Vin Diesel

Real, Challenge, Able

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
Vin Diesel

Great, Idea, Talent

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
Steve Hackett

Music, Mind, Long

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Norman Cousins

Book, Together, Meaning

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.
Robert Rodriguez

Music, Trying, Idea

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.
Jonathan Kozol

Reality, Between, Kids

During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.
Lauren Conrad

End, Holiday, Parties

I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.
Lauren Conrad

Wear, Collection, Include

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.
Eric Davis

Places, Puzzle, Main

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman

Great, Mind, Memory

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