Peter Baynham Quotes
It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I take my work seriously.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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I think good things happen to good people.
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My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!
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It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
