"I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything."

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Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

Alia Shawkat

#Fun Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Years Quotes

“I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.”
“Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.”
“The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2015). “The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.259, Penguin
“I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.”

Source : "The view from Hastings". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
“Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.”
“But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.”

Source : emily m. danforth (2012). “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”, p.34, Harper Collins

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