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.Peter Ustinov
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Adam Johnson -
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch -
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
Patricia Clarkson -
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg -
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
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.
Vince Vaughn
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig -
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
Harry Browne -
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Hannah Cowley -
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.
Edmund Barton -
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.
Taryn Simon -
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
Vic Willis
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
Harold Prince -
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.
Rachel Bloom -
I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
Karl Malone
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I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
Elizabeth Warren -
I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.
Mac DeMarco -
You have to practice until you die.
Taisen Deshimaru -
Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
George Osborne -
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov