Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Years
  • New
  • Generation

• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Political
  • Training
  • Office

• I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Period

• I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interest
  • Big
  • Swing

• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

  

  Babasaheb

• What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.

  

  Lucy Lawless

• I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Mood

• I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Writing
  • Partner

• Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• My dad has definitely sacrificed a lot for me, and I don't know if I could do it if I was in his shoes. Leaving your life behind and chasing this dream because your kid is passionate about this sport.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Dad

• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Law

• 'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.

  

  J Balvin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Culture

• Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

  

  Jim McKay

• No bad man can be a good poet.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • Good
  • Bad

• I can eat Chipotle all day long for years.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Long

• Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Work
  • History
  • Racism

• Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Work

• Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Thoughts
  • Needs
  • Looks

• I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Music

• It was not the 'God-intoxicated' philosopher but the hard-headed, not to say hard-hearted, pupil of Machiavelli and philologic-historical critic of the Bible. Orthodoxy could be returned to only if Spinoza was wrong in every respect.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • God
  • Respect
  • Bible

• I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Science
  • Wisdom
  • Sleep

• ...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Smoking
  • Jacket
  • Doctor Who