Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
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Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
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Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
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I just want to do something challenging.
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You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight.
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
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For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.
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It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.