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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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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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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I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
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When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
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Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
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To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
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Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
