Peter Ackroyd Quotes
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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'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.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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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.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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I love playing sport.
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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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?
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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.
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Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.
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Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? … Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.
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I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.
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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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At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.
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I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
