Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: "Fuck me he's a earthbender.”
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: "Fuck me he's a earthbender.”
