Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Never diss somebody’s mum, never play chess with the Kurdish mafia, and never lie down with a woman who’s more magical than you are.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• Mafia
• Play Chess

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• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

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• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  

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• January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

  

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• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

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• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

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• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

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• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

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• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

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• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

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• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  

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• I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

  

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• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

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• I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

  

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• I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

  

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• I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

  

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• I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

  

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• It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

  

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• A woman can do anything... even lead the country.

  

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• Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

  

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• Never diss somebody’s mum, never play chess with the Kurdish mafia, and never lie down with a woman who’s more magical than you are.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Woman
  • Mafia
  • Play Chess