Alek Wek Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
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Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
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Many live to eat, instead of the other way around.
