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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I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.
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If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.
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Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.
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This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
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There's never too much you can do.
