Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
I’d been warned in advance, so I’d given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
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We believed from the beginning that we could do it. We stuck in there and fought our butts off just to get back where we were and win the ball game.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
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I’d been warned in advance, so I’d given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.
