Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
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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.
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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.
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I love film, but I feeling a bit needy about returning to the stage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.
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Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.
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You have to have respect on the pitch.
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One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.
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What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy.
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My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
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Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
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I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.
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My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
