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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Every choice you make has an end result.
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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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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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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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I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
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I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.
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And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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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.
