Ben Macintyre Quotes
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.
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But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
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We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.
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When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
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The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.
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When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.
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I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
