Anton du Beke Quotes
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I try to win every tournament.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
