Peter Ustinov Quotes
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
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The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
