Anton du Beke Quotes
I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
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When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.
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I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
