Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
So into the woods we went—it was surprisingly noisy. Especially one loud bird whose chirping sounded far too cheerful for the middle of the night.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.
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I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there's a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent on.
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Don't stress over mean-girl antics.
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Chanel is my ultimate weakness.
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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So into the woods we went—it was surprisingly noisy. Especially one loud bird whose chirping sounded far too cheerful for the middle of the night.
