Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Something

• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Words
  • Party
  • Government

• When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Trust

• I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Idea
  • Audience
  • Alive

• Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Well
  • Undervalued

• An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Old

• I fell into conversation with Douglas. His is a split personality. À deux he is delightful; clever, funny, observant, drily cynical. But get him anywhere near 'display mode', particularly if there are officials around, and he might as well have a corncob up his arse. Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up
  • High
  • Funny

• It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Great
  • Political
  • Action

• I love film, but I feeling a bit needy about returning to the stage.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Feeling

• I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make total sense for me, but the metal version of that did. So I made a small list with Metal Blade, Prosthetic and couple of other labels, and Relapse was one of them.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Couple

• Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Good
  • Believe

• I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

  

  Lynn Abbey

• The way I was raised, you get a new pair of sneakers when the old one gets messed up. But when I got to high school, I started dating girls and trying to fit in, and I realized everybody was collecting Jordans. When I would get my paychecks, I wouldn't even take money. I would just trade them for sneakers.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.

  

  Byron Allen
  • American

• Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

  

  Lynn Collins

• After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • She
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• You have to have respect on the pitch.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Respect

• I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Theatre

• I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.

  

  John Musker
  • People
  • Life
  • Theatre

• The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Work
  • Women

• I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

  

  Kevin Powers
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Theatre
  • Fairy
  • Dressed