Peter Ustinov Quotes
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Parenting is tough.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
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People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
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The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
