Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• I spend my own money, not other people's money.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Money
  • My Own

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Human

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Magic

• We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Always
  • Luck

• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Bread
  • Cheese

• There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Unknown

• The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Hero
  • Shadow

• Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

  

  Alfred Angelo Attanasio
  • Universe

• I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Worry

• 'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Party

• I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy