#ted

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ↗

— Chet Atkins

#become #interested #once #predictable #you

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

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#consisted #crises #days #ever #every

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

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#being #boring #care #certain #certain things

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 had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#everybody #had #having #i #leotards

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#characters #cutting #feet #fit #i

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#connected #could #draw #early #i

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#clear #come #complicated #fight #life