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There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

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It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. ↗

— Francis William Aston

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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. ↗

— John James Audubon

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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

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I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. ↗

— Red Auerbach

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It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it. ↗

— Bille August

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