Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
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Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.
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Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!
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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
