Peter Ackroyd Quotes
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.Peter Ackroyd
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
Garth Brooks -
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
Carlene Carter -
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
Idina Menzel -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
Namie Amuro -
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
Octavio Paz -
When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
Ian Mckellen -
I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
Olivia Wilde -
I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
Magnus Larsson -
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
Bashar al-Assad -
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
Ted Kotcheff -
I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
Salma Hayek -
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
Barton Gellman -
The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
Irma S. Rombauer
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When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.
Catherine Bell -
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
Mary Douglas -
I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
Joe Arpaio -
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary -
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
Peter Ackroyd