Peter Ackroyd Quotes
There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
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The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
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A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'
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The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
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The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.
