Peter Ackroyd Quotes
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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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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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.
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As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
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Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
