Alek Wek Quotes
Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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And that's the way it is.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.
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Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.
