Elia Suleiman Quotes
What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
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Militat omnis amans
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.
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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
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I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
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What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
