Peter Ackroyd Quotes

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

Peter Ackroyd

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• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
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• I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

  Odilon Redon
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• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
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• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
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• All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

  

  Wale
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• I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
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• But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

  

  Pat Summerall
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• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
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• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
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• I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.

  

  Prince Charles
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• Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

  

  Liam Neeson
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• Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
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• He chose better for me, He always chooses better

  

  Yasmin Mogahed

• My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • People
  • Great
  • Money