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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Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism-and I say it with such gusto-capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
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I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
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People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.
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There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.
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There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.
