Peter Ackroyd Quotes

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 5, 1949

Topics

WorldSelfFeelWishArtistCreate

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

Jim Lee

TimeLookingSmallDesignYouWant

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

John Bruton

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I really like 'ICO' and 'Shadow of the Colossus.'

Jenova Chen

ShadowLikeReallyICO

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

John Grant

TimeWordsWritingLookingDown

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Jeff Bezos

PositiveBusinessImpactImportant

I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.

Jeff Buckley

PeopleThinkInsideDifferentJust

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

AnniversaryBeginningRevolutionPlay

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Ron Wyden

HealthInsuranceYouChooseKeep

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Michel Onfray

AloneBestI AmPeopleLuxuryNow

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

Deirdre O'Kane

TeaKnowNeedRealNecessityJust

One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated.

Conner Eldridge

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Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Constance Wu

WorldOutsideProgrammingInterest

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