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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It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist orientation makes it so that people want to come to the United States in such numbers. I wish that we could figure out a way to do this in a legal fashion because I believe in the Latino culture.
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Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
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Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
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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.
