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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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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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
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I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.
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I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.
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I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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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.
