Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
He was a Parisian. You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
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I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.
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I would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay.
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The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.
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It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.
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The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
