Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I have nothing to hide.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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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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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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I was on 'Desperate Housewives' and that was my crash course on being on national television topless. Also, I do what I can in between scenes: push-ups, a little free weights. I knew going in it would be a big part of the show.
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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
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I don't think the North Korean leadership is interested in a genuine deal to end their WMD programs or their stranglehold on the North Korean people.
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After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the 'ethnic best friend' or the 'sassy teenager.' It felt like the same note, and I didn't feel like I was growing.
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There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.
