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Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last…
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its…
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But…
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which…
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…
— Peter Ackroyd
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After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
— Drew Carey
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Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth
— Bob Barker
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At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.
— Andy Richter
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Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then…
— Hal Sparks
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For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.
— Doug Davidson
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The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
— Joni Mitchell
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Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
— Bruce Forsyth
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I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
— Apolo Ohno
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that…
— Mike Wallace
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On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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