Elia Suleiman Quotes
Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'
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Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.
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Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellusquae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.
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I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.
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The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.
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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
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Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.
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Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.
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Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
