#ink

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. ↗

— Chet Atkins

#meant #next #people #think #verse

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs. ↗

— Dave Attell

#comedy #confidence #could #day #hated

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#age-old #always #america #because #being

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. ↗

— David Attenborough

#birds #feed #group #inhabit #kingdom

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not. ↗

— David Attenborough

#ardent #does #i #i am #know

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there. ↗

— David Attenborough

#although #am #beginning #career #conveying

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #different #different roles #essentially #form

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#chaplin #cinema #context #elevated #extraordinary

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#above #being #bottles #british #bursting