Elia Suleiman Quotes

It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.

Elia Suleiman

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Problem

• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  

  Sai Baba
  • Water
  • Sun
  • Sky

• To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Style
  • Yourself

• I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Gym
  • Class
  • Ballet

• Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • War
  • Democracy

• We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Single
  • Summer

• I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Listening

• I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Confidence
  • Insecurity

• I just feel like there's a lot of things more important than just basketball, and I love basketball. It's what I want to do for the longest time possible. It's what I eat, it's what I sleep about, it's what I breathe, it's in my lifestyle. I just really feel like there's more important things than just putting the ball in the hoop.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Sleep

• Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People

• After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

  

  Joel Grey
  • World
  • Past
  • Attention

• You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

  

  David Antin
  • Money

• Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Women

• There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition - whatever you're going through, good or bad, right or wrong, straight or gay, whatever. That human experience is the meat of the show.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Bad

• We can score on anybody. But we have to focus on defense. They were just outworking us. Everybody has to step up, period, for us to be a better team.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Team
  • Focus

• It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Focus
  • Achieve
  • Authority