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And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

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I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. ↗

— David Attenborough

#bangkok #beyond #getting #got #hell

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are. ↗

— David Attenborough

#aware #conservation #did #even #his

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. ↗

— David Attenborough

#films #get #glimpses #history #human world

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

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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