Sufjan Stevens Quotes
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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Oh, the cat I worked with on 'Game of Thrones' was so badly behaved! It would never do anything it was supposed to do. I was like, 'Get your game together, cat. You're so bad.'
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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.
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The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
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School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.
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Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
