Anton du Beke Quotes
I work out in the gym three times a week on top of my dancing, so I have to eat a lot to keep my weight and energy up: a big breakfast, and little and often throughout the day.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.
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I think of women as an all-being creature.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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You have to realize that when I started to work on 'Aladdin', Disney Theatrical wasn't in existence. I suppose I had always hoped that 'Aladdin' would be somewhere on the runway.
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I work out in the gym three times a week on top of my dancing, so I have to eat a lot to keep my weight and energy up: a big breakfast, and little and often throughout the day.
