Alek Wek Quotes
When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
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I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
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I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.
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My favorite horse was Zenyatta. She got me hooked.
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When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.
