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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

~Peter Ustinov

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

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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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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

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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.

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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: April 16th, 1921

Died: March 28th, 2004

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