Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
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Stop dragging my heart around.
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
