Peter Ackroyd Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.
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What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
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I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.
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The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.
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It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
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Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
