Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

Alia Shawkat

• Energy
• Reading
• Dark
• Singing

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• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  

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• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

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• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

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• I had lost faith in biography.

  

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• My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

  

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• I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

  

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• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

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• I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Energy
  • Reading
  • Dark