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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Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.
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Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?
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Having balanced nutrition is also very important to keep my body in shape and healthy.
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It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
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Physically, looking through a giant ground glass and seeing how the world looks is amazing. When composing a shot, I see a combination of the real facts of my subject and the camera's transformation of their image at the same time.
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
