Alek Wek Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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The Thought Police: To censor and protect.
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I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
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I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
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I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.