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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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'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.
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I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
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I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.
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The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
