Elia Suleiman Quotes
There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
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I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.
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'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
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I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn't think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.
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There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
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Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
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If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
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I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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Name a country, and I have probably been there.
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The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
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It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.
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There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.
