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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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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It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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There is no such thing as a former KGB man.
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You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.
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I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.
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Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
