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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Film Director
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Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
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As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
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When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
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I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
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Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.
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Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
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