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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Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
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I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.
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In the 2010 holiday quarter, Apple reported $26.7 billion in revenue, up 70 percent from a year before. That means it's nearly as big as IBM, which did $29 billion in the same quarter.
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Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
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Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me.
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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.
