Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
-
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
-
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
-
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
-
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
-
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
-
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
-
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
-
I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
-
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
-
Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
-
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
-
Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
-
With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
-
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
-
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
-
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
-
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
-
I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
-
My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I'd be like, 'I'm gonna bomb.'
-
My mom is big on moisturizer and water. She always reminds me to drink a lot of water and wear sunglasses because I always forget them when I go out, even though they are one of my favorite accessories. She always reminds me about wrinkles, and always did, so it's kind of been ingrained into me.
-
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
