Alek Wek Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
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I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.
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The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.
