Alia Atkinson Quotes
I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.
Quotes to Explore
-
'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
-
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
-
It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
-
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
-
When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
-
My parents were both entrepreneurs.
-
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
-
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
-
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
-
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
-
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
-
The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
-
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
-
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
-
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
-
You can cage the singer but not the song.
-
A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
-
I've always taken direction pretty well.
-
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
-
Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.
-
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
-
I can't have brown hair for some reason. I don't think it goes with my skin tone. The second I see it turn brown in the sun, I dye it black - the blacker the better.
-
I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.
-
I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.
