Peter Ackroyd Quotes

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

Peter Ackroyd

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• Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Star

• Caffeine is a good thing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Caffeine
  • A Good Thing

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Culture
  • New
  • New York

• We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Like
  • Watch
  • Essential

• The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Successful
  • Actor
  • Lifestyle

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Writing
  • Part
  • Hotel

• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • College
  • Myself

• I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Want
  • Man
  • Wife

• I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • First

• So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Know

• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Children
  • America

• I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Think
  • Most

• Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • Fact
  • Often

• I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Natural
  • Kid
  • Blonde

• I haven't been like, 'Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Movie

• The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Comedy

• What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.

  

  Arthur Ransome
  • History

• It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

  

  Jake McDorman
  • Time
  • True
  • Fashion

• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Free
  • Small
  • City

• I was very shy. I'm still shy.

  

  Patti LaBelle

• In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

  

  Peter Ackroyd