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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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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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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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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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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I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.
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I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own pitiless vision. This misguided utopianism is what makes them such effective bogeymen.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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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.
