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 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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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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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?
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I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?
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I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.
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I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
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Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.
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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.
