Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
I got to work with Eli Vargas. Great guy. Huge in Spain. He's a heartthrob there. Who else? Terry Crews - he was really funny.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
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We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
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My favorite movie is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself - very existential.
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I'd rather work than not.
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I got to work with Eli Vargas. Great guy. Huge in Spain. He's a heartthrob there. Who else? Terry Crews - he was really funny.
