Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It's the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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I miss baseball.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
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In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.
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When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.
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A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.
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The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.
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My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It's the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.
