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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Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
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Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.
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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
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It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette... unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.
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There's never too much you can do.
