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Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1975

Topics

Dance Feel Tradition You Comfortable

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John F. Kennedy

Life Courage Moment Tragedy Triumph

A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.

Me Easy Pretty Five Minutes Takes

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.

Love Appreciation Wine Country Own

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

Best Man Decisions You Choice Want

I need to study English more. I'll start by watching 'Sesame Street' every day.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Day Start Every Day Street Watching

I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.

Love Fruit Never Recipe Handle Pot

In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.

Happiness Culture Acceptance May OK

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Boy Dying Little Left Four

The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

Finding Important Say Something Most

I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.

History Story Wrong Enemy Know Side

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.

Allison Schroeder

School Learn You Done Silent Golden

If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.

School Me Drama Now Sitting Actor

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