Sufjan Stevens Quotes

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

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• Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.

  

  LaToya London
  • Past
  • Doing
  • Win

• Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Kill

• A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Money
  • Together
  • Magic

• A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • You
  • Director

• 'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Trump gets too much credit for 'Teen Vogue''s evolution.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Trump
  • Teen

• We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

  

  Ludwig Quidde

• Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Trying
  • Reality

• The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

  

  Kim Novak
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• We want to teach girls of color the skills they need and create a diversity of voices into the tech community.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Community
  • Color
  • Diversity

• You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People

• I am truly happy with what I've got. But if I could alter something, it would be my hands. I've never been satisfied with them - I would love longer fingers.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Happy

• This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.

  

  Jason Giambi
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I was very much surprised by the Johnson/Gove proposals to make it harder for Europeans to work in the U.K. if Britain were to vote to leave the E.U.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Work

• We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.

  

  David Farr
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

  

  Lilly Singh

• Audiences need to keep demanding shows with strong female leads.

  

  Alisha Boe
  • Strong

• I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Up
  • Morning

• I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly

• I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

  

  Linus Pauling
  • World

• I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Stunts

• And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

  

  Anne Heche
  • Mother

• The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

  

  Sufjan Stevens