Sufjan Stevens Quotes
That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.
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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.
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Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.
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I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.
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I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.
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Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.
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I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
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That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
