Anton du Beke Quotes
When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.
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In high school, we used to sign to each other during the game, signaling different plays and stuff like that. It was kind of fun. It was definitely unique.
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You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
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I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.
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I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.
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I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.
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I've thought a lot about the moment when I was infected with Ebola.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.
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When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.
