Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Dr Walid walked me past the security at reception and introduced me to today's dead body.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.
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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
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But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
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Dr Walid walked me past the security at reception and introduced me to today's dead body.
