Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
Tabitha Soren
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
Edmund Morgan
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
Mandy Patinkin
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I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
Yelawolf
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
Warren Spector
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The Devil is a woman.
Camille Paglia
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Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.
Brian Goldman
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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
David Ricardo
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
Mary Gaitskill
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If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.
Khloe Kardashian
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Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.
Jimmy Smits
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I can't sing or dance.
Joel Edgerton
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I write music. I'm in a band.
Jamie Campbell Bower
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When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why.
Dita Von Teese
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When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.
Scotty McCreery
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I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other, so that their continuous presence in a company, as in England, is not absolutely necessary.
Arthur Penn
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'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.
Kris Holden-Ried
