"I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Voice Quotes #Important Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.”
“Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.”
“To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.”
“Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.”
“Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.”
“I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.”
“You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.”
“I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie actors are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out.”

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