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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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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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
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I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
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Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.
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As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor to make sure the right people see it.
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The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
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It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
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I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.
