Elia Suleiman Quotes

I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.

Elia Suleiman

• Peace
• Humanity
• Connectedness

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• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

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• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

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• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

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• We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

  

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
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• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

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• Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

  

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• My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• Power to the peaceful.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us.

  

  Barack Obama
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• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

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• I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

  

  Fleur East
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• Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

  

  Edward Young
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• We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Peace
  • Wish

• An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• I'd rather proliferate funny little rumors than not.

  

  Arthur Ashin
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• I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Peace
  • Humanity
  • Connectedness