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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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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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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I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
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The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related to health and lifestyle, and how people respond to learning their own telomere length results.
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Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.
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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.
