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.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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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.
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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.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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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.'
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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.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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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.
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I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
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Once a maggot, always a maggot.
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With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.
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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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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.
