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Peter York Quotes

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 15, 1950

Topics

Cool Media London Arts Between

From Lady Carlisle's trip to Moscow in 1663 to Veronica Atkinson's tour of duty during the 1989 Romanian revolution, it is clear that very little has changed. Four hundred years of innovation, liberation, and improvement clearly bypassed the Foreign Office while making its rounds through Westminster.

Innovation Improvement Revolution

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Smokey Robinson

Soul Spiritual You Spirit Try Need

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

Work Good Art Mind Thinking Become

Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it's a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone's garage.

History Listening Someone Talk Up

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

World New Tribe Spread Population

I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Dog I Am Ethics Think Better Hot

What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.

Today You Why Understand Write Just

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Father Relationship Memory Me Know

If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.

Love You Back Give Then Really

I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.

Loved Feel Writer Known Means Truly

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Time Find True First Time First Out

Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.'

Richard Stanley

Me Island Question Ask Over Years

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