Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
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Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
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I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.
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A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
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A lot of guys are out there with their iPods. I'm not one of them. I just never really got into it.
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I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
