Alek Wek Quotes
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.
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I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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Exchange ideas frequently.
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Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.
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I've eight brothers and sisters - five girls, four boys. I am the seventh.
