Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.
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If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
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With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.
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I would do a movie musical.
