Alek Wek Quotes
I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
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When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
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I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
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In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.
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A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
