Alek Wek Quotes
It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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I don't like possessions.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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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 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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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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My daily routine is set: I wake up and go for gymnastics, then dance class, gym, and come back home. That's my life. I am very boring.
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My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
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I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
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I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.
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A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.
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It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
