Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.Ben Aaronovitch
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
Oliver North -
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
Sabrina Carpenter
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
Farrah Fawcett -
I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
Vin Diesel -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
Quincy Jones -
As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
Taylor Negron -
I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
Yaya Toure
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
Irvine Welsh -
If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
Kate Mara -
Malraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say 'perhaps' or 'I don't know,' so that after a while we grow accustomed to saying it for him.
Randall Jarrell -
He is energetic only in evading responsibility.
Isaac Asimov -
I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
Elizabeth Berg -
I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.
Bill Nighy
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
Walter Matthau -
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
Astrid Lindgren -
We had an open house when we launched the book and 900 people passed through in the first four hours.
Bob Walker -
In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
Mireille Guiliano -
Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.
Ben Aaronovitch