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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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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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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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
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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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In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
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Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
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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.
