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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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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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.
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My mistakes are always around moving too slow or moving too fast without process behind it. And it's something that, if we're not careful, we'll repeat again and again.
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Many live to eat, instead of the other way around.
