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Peter Ustinov

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.


— Peter Ustinov


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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.


— Peter Ustinov


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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.


— Peter Ustinov


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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.


— Peter Ustinov


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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.


— Peter Ustinov


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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.


— Peter Ustinov


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you took the characters absolutely seriously and paid no attention to the manipulator. His brother Alexandre Benois was a stage designer who worked with Stravinsky and Diaghilev. " adding ".

He was also renowned as a filmmaker theatre and opera director stage designer author screenwriter comedian humourist newspaper and magazine columnist radio broadcaster and television presenter. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat who in addition to his various academic posts served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement. Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor Emmy Awards Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting a Grammy Award for best recording for children as well as the recipient of governmental honours from amongst others the United Kingdom France and Germany.

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