Sufjan Stevens Quotes
My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.Sufjan Stevens
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
I have a great office.
R. L. Stine -
I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
Jacob deGrom -
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
Wallace Shawn -
One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
D. A. Pennebaker -
Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
Karen Allen
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso -
Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
Karen Salmansohn -
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
Zadie Smith -
Puns are the highest form of literature.
Alfred Hitchcock -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ridiculous-looking - especially her. They're so strange and charismatic and weird. It's pretty hard to take your eyes off them.
Chelsea Handler
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My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.
Mario Balotelli -
We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
Mary Steenburgen -
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
Dav Pilkey -
The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
Bradley Walsh -
I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.
Ander Crenshaw -
I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
Eric Cantona
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I do not feel the need to play in Ligue 1, nor in the Premier League or in Serie A.
Antoine Griezmann -
My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.
Eric Bachmann -
To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.
Ian Buruma -
People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.
Simon Sinek -
My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.
Sufjan Stevens