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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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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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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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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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'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
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The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
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The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
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The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.
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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.