“I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.”

— Stephen Sondheim

Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Stephen Sondheim p. 408

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American composer and lyricist 1930

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