Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of things are happening quickly and people are caught up in the heat of the moment, they may have a recollection that isn't exactly as things happened.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.
