Alek Wek Quotes
At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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War is over if you want it.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.
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She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?
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At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.
