Peter Ustinov Quotes
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.
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The assistants, the managers, the PR, the person whose coordinating, the person in production - those are the people I loved communicating with and building network relationships with.
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The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
