Sufjan Stevens Quotes
I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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Publishing is not my world.
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If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
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I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.
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I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
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But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
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When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
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There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of the song. You basically want to create something that the fans relate to because it's exactly like them. So there's a lot of art that's made to be in the image of the audience, but then the audience is imitating this version of themselves. It's a really weird cultural feedback loop, and it's kind of strange to watch. It's a new thing since I was a kid, really a different thing.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.
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I guess my choice of medium depends on how I want to interpret the idea. Sometimes the interpretation works best in a photograph, and then sometimes it works best in a drawing. But most often times, with the work, everything starts with the diorama with the photograph. Then I'm just filtering out ideas and images from the photograph and reinterpreting them in other mediums.
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I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.
