Sufjan Stevens Quotes
It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
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I always feel honored to meet people who ever met my mum. It means a lot to me.
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.
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The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.
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I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
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It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
