Peter Ustinov Quotes
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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I would love to do something with Coldplay.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
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Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
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The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
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Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.
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'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.
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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
