Erol Alkan Quotes
Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.
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Justice is revenge.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
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I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.
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Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.
