Will Sheff Quotes
When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
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There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.
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There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.
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When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.
