Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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Music is how you feel.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
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I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.
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I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.
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I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.
