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 was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.
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But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
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My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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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.
