Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

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"People make mistakes/Holding to their own/thinking they're alone"

- Stephen Sondheim

Self-awareness

"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration."

- Stephen Sondheim

Teamwork

"Success is like failure. It’s how you perceive it. It’s what you do with it, not how you achieve it."

- Stephen Sondheim

Success

"So, old friends, now it’s time to start growing up, taking charge, seeing things as they are, facing facts, not escaping them, still with dreams, just reshaping them, growing up."

- Stephen Sondheim

Growth

"If I cannot fly, let me sing."

- Stephen Sondheim

Aspirations

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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