I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965. - Michael Bond

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I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen. - Cliff Curtis

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When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. - Arthur Smith

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I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. - Garth Risk Hallberg

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Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same. - Louis Theroux

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Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head. - John Strachan

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Being a 'Blue Peter' presenter is not well paid. - Konnie Huq

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I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie. - Cristin Milioti

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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good. - Bill Gross

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Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York! - Sam Trammell

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