Alek Wek Quotes
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.
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I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.
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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
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There's never too much you can do.
