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" Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. "
Peter Ustinov
Immortality
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" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "
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" In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. "
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" To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. "
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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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" 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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" I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. "
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" Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. "
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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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" If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. "
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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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" 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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" By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. "
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" Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. "
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" The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. "
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" Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. "
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" The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. "
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" People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. "
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" Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. "
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" 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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" Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. "
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" At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. "
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