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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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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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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If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.
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After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.
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I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
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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.
