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Peter Ackroyd Quotes

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Money Me Law Game Guilt

I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.

Life Love Son Me Husband Parent

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

Good Home Money Me Look Back

If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years ago. It's changed like that of no other species has. What's made that difference?

Life People Society Fast Now Same

I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.

Music Tough Think You Rock Hang

I'm a flower gardener.

Flower Gardener

I'm very close to my family; they're the most important people to me.

Family People Me Important Most

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

Robert B. Parker

I Am Writing Start Book Know Going

If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

Funny Good Man Comedy Year You

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

Music Think You Late Play Too Late

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

Guitar Hell Enough Play Write Out

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

Hope Path Humble Food Friends You

There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-Files' and on network television, so it's more permissive. That's not to say that you want to abuse that. I think that a show like 'The X-Files' actually worked better as a network show with the restraints put on it, the censorship that was applied.

Think Better Doing You Television

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