Peter Ackroyd Quotes
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.
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I respect women to the utmost.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What can one do?' 'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'
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When the mayor of Nagoya denies the Nanjing Massacre, he gets blacklisted by the city of Nanjing. When the government of Sichuan denies 'tofu dregs' construction which caused the collapse of several schools, they get blacklisted by me.
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I actually use women's perfume - I have since I was a kid. It's called Anais Anais, from Rachael. It smells like a beautiful woman and a bouquet of flowers. I use that and Right Guard deodorant.
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I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.
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Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
