Sufjan Stevens Quotes
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
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Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
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I always knew I wanted to be in a band.
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You have to train a dog to think.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.
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There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
