Peter Ackroyd Quotes

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

Peter Ackroyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

Steven Tyler

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If I fancy someone but can't tell them because I'm shy, I'll think, 'It's fine. You're not going to die. Maybe just tell them or whatever.'

Shura

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I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.'

Tony Jaa

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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

Drew Barrymore

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You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.

Dee Rees

LifeMeYouPersonMy OwnOwn

A lot of people have asked me what's it like being an American player in Europe. 'Do you have to earn more respect because you're American?' But I don't think it's like that at all. I think if you're good, you're good. They don't care where you're from or anything like that.

Christian Pulisic

GoodRespectPeopleMeThinkCare

I don't mind not being cool.

Chris Martin

MindCoolBeing

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

Corey Taylor

TeenMeYouSpiritIronyLine

I don't feel like I'm really in the public eye because I feel like I'm one of the public.

Cloris Leachman

EyeFeelBecauseI Feel LikeLike

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

Branford Marsalis

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I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.

Piet Mondrian

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