Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
When I wrap a job, I disconnect with it, and I'm done, even if they said we'd shoot more next year, at this time, which is not the case at all because nobody knows what's happening.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.
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the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
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I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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When I wrap a job, I disconnect with it, and I'm done, even if they said we'd shoot more next year, at this time, which is not the case at all because nobody knows what's happening.
