Peter Baynham Quotes
In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I love to write.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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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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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
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As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us.
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In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
