Alek Wek Quotes
From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause is the terrible education that children acquire on the street, at school, and at home.
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When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
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I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
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On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
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From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.
