Peter Ackroyd Quotes
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they have not suggests that the wealthy have captured the benefits for themselves.
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Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
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Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.
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To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
