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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

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What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin. ↗

— Dave Attell

#combine #eat #fish #healthiest #know

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#back #did #enjoy #forth #half-hour

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#generation #had #how #lack #libraries

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#call #cover #dragons #enough #ethical

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #back #commit #doing #drink

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. ↗

— John James Audubon

#constantly #deck #exercise #forcing #however

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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