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Than Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
- People are much more interesting than people realise.
- Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed…
- 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…
- The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard…
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