Sufjan Stevens Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
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In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
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An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.
