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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. Thats

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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"

- Stephen Sondheim

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This quote is written / told by Stephen Sondheim somewhere between March 22, 1930 and today. He/she was a famous Composer from USA. The author also have 40 other quotes.

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