“It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.”

—  Gregory Peck

Speaking at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation awards, as quoted in "Majestic presence" in The Hindu (20 June 2003) http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/06/20/stories/2003062001400100.htm

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American actor 1916–2003

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