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.
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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.
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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.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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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.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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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.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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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.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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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.
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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.
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I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.
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Hockey is still my favourite sport. I think that might be part of what makes me successful. I don't live or die by racquetball, so I can detach from it when needed. I'm all about all sports.
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The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
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Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
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My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty
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We eat to live.
