Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
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Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.
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Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
