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.Alia Shawkat
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch -
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.
Ed Markey -
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.
Salar Kamangar -
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.
Callie Khouri
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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.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
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.
Tao Okamoto -
I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
Eddie Albert -
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara -
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. Byatt -
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.
Nancy Gibbs
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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.
Adam Beach -
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
Karl von Frisch -
There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. Wong -
My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
Kate Walsh -
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
Imran Khan -
I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
Wallace Shawn
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Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
Chiang Kai-shek -
My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
Ashwin Sanghi -
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
Dallas Willard -
Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way.
Belinda Johnson -
Advertisers like shows that viewers like to watch live.
Channing Dungey -
Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
Alia Shawkat