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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Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.
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All these retailers these days are under pressure. Why? It's because... for the last 30 years, value equaled price. But now, value equals price, convenience, and a little bit of brand.
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I'm an old-fashioned guy.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.
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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.
