Peter Ackroyd Quotes
I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have.
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If I really don't feel like it, I'll change my plans and choose to be with my baby. If that moment makes me happier, I think that's more important.
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Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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And thou wert lovely to the last,Extinguish'd, not decay'd;As stars that shoot along the skyShine brightest as they fall from high.
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I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.
