Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.

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• Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Live
  • Friend
  • Child

• After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Award

• Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Jazz

• You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Learning

• Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Care

• Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • She
  • Morning
  • Horse

• It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Writing
  • Forever
  • Seems

• Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Stills

• Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.

  

  Lilli Palmer
  • Art
  • Nice
  • Effort

• You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Fall
  • Husband
  • Gun

• I want to play. Obviously we didn't get it done the first time I was a part of that team. If God blesses me with another opportunity to try it, it would be an honor. I would have a second shot at fulfilling one of my goals.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • God
  • Done

• I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Friend

• Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

  

  Van Jones

• I like fashion because it’s sort of my job, so I’m into it when I have to be. But when I’m not working, I wear jeans and T-shirts. I go to vintage stores all the time to find funky T-shirts.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fashion

• I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

  

  Watchman Nee
  • School
  • Religious
  • Kitchen

• When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Down
  • Work Hard

• You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Hope
  • Longevity

• I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • I Think
  • Discovering
  • Wizard