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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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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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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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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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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In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
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Don't judge a person on winning or losing.
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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.
