Peter Ackroyd Quotes

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

Jess Walter

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When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.

Jessica Hart

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Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

John Hickenlooper

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Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

Shonda Rhimes

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The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.

Michael T. Flynn

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There've been moments where I just was tired of being in L.A. It was very difficult. I mean, you're constantly rejected. And that's OK, it's just really frustrating for me, because I try to read scripts and projects that have really great, deeper, meaningful qualities to them.

Missy Peregrym

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Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.

Lisa Lampanelli

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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.

Jose Angel Gurria

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For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

Connie Britton

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I wanted to fold into the 'Hellraiser' narrative something about the guy - the Frenchman Lemarchand - who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, 'Well, what would have happened to him?' He might well have been taken to Devil's Island, and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie.

Clive Barker

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I've known for a very long time that making music for the church has been my calling.

Brian Littrell

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