Peter Ackroyd Quotes
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
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We are not the people we are in films. I am not an alcoholic. But I portray that. I can't bash up 20 guys at a time in real life. It's just that I do it well on-screen.
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It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
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What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.
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London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
