Peter Ackroyd Quotes

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Peter Ackroyd

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Business
  • Same

• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • God
  • Game
  • Me

• I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Boy

• Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • City
  • Hands

• 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Young
  • Bloody

• Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Human
  • Destiny
  • Patterns

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • You
  • Lie
  • Others

• I love playing sport.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Sport

• Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Me
  • Lie
  • March

• I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Going
  • Shaking
  • Booty

• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Book
  • Jesus
  • Ideas

• I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Think
  • Genius
  • Expression

• The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Good
  • Relationship

• I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Crying

• To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Justice
  • Sacrifice
  • Farmer

• Our goal is always to make games that can move people, that are designed for everybody so the whole family should be able to play it together, and that bring people together and really move them in a way.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Time
  • Space
  • Leaving

• When the U.S. asks for the extradition of a terrorist, if Turkey doesn't have that individual on the terror list, what do we say, what do we respond? Now, the individual might not be on your terror list or terrorist list. But if he is on my list, and if we have an agreement on the extradition of criminals, if I make the request, then, well, you should extradite that person. And there has been numerous examples of that mechanism working with many other nations as well, not just the U.S.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Agreement
  • Terrorist
  • Respond

• I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

  

  Peter Ackroyd