Sufjan Stevens Quotes
The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.Sufjan Stevens
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
R. A. Butler -
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole -
There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
Omar Bongo -
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Warren Bennis -
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar -
I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
Tamsin Greig
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Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
Carice van Houten -
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
Magnus Carlsen -
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
Karl von Frisch -
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
Hans Zimmer
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
Lance Loud -
I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
Faith Prince -
Working together is the quickest road to marital problems.
Dawn Steel -
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon -
When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.
Diplo -
I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.
Bill Haslam
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
Gary Oldman -
These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'
Dav Pilkey -
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
Audrey Hepburn -
The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.
Sufjan Stevens