Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.
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Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
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Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.
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I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.
