Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
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Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people.
