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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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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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
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I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
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In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
