Sufjan Stevens Quotes
Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
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You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know?
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Supermodels, like we once were, don't exist any more.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
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I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
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Overall, I was extremely impressed with the fashion scene that Stockholm has to offer, both on and off the runways.
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Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
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The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
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I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.
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A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.
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Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
