Alek Wek Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Dana Carvey -
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
Kate Winslet -
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
Tavi Gevinson -
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
Sam Kean -
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
Ian McLagan Small Faces
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
K. A. Applegate -
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass -
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
Floyd Skloot -
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
Yoon Ahn -
I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
Victoria Justice -
I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
M.I.A.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler -
Home is where your rump rests.
Rachel Brosnahan -
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
Sam Worthington -
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
Mara Brock Akil -
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
Cameron Winklevoss
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I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
Amy Bloom -
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan Didion -
No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
Sara Willis -
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
Jean Dujardin -
Even our beliefs have become trend statements.
Donald Miller -
We eat to live.
Alek Wek