Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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I write novels and other things.
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Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
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When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
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Losing has nothing to do with geography.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.
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I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.
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Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
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If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
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I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.
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Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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Ghosts, I was thinking, memories - I wasn't sure there was a difference.
