Alek Wek Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
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If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.
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I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.
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I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.
