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Anton du Beke Quotes

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: british
Birth: July 20, 1966

Topics

Good Know Hip-Hop Dancing Something

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

Keep Going People Forward Look Back

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.

Age Time New York Book Year You

According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.

Yesterday Destructive Notion Obama

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.'

Mireille Guiliano

People Unhappy Because Diets

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

Law Chair Find Student Listen Empty

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Lucinda Williams

Love Speak Easy I Can Write Far

My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.

Douglas Trumbull

Live Experience Window Reality You

Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.

Dog World Border Hunting 100 Years

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Good Myself Me Writing Ego Think

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

Bruce Boxleitner

Good Time Boy Need Good Time Lot

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

Myself Job Thought Possible See

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

Funny Music Time You Find Boring

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