Anton du Beke Quotes
I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
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I can always act.
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We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.
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Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.
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I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.
