Alek Wek Quotes
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
Idina Menzel -
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane -
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
Ian Anderson -
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
Ted Lyons -
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
Kaspar Hauser
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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
Gail Sheehy -
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
F. Gary Gray -
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
Vernon Wells -
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
Fiona Shaw -
I'm a historian in my own mind.
Quentin Tarantino
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
Olivia Culpo -
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Irvine Welsh -
I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Philosophy was once considered science.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
Manju Warrier -
What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
James Garner -
I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
Douglas Coupland -
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Cornelia Funke -
You've got to make yourself happy. I'm a happy person naturally.
Alek Wek