Ellis Peters Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.
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Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
