Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
Rosie Perez is the coolest. She's kind of everything you want her to be. She's involved in so many cool things, political charities and stuff.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I'm not here to – as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.
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Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.
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If I'm backed into a corner, the first thing that comes to mind is the robot from Forbidden Planet. But that could be me trying to be kitschy, cool, and cultural, because the real answer is R2D2.
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If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?
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Rosie Perez is the coolest. She's kind of everything you want her to be. She's involved in so many cool things, political charities and stuff.
