Alek Wek Quotes
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.
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I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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It's hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.
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I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven't dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.
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Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.
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I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
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If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
