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I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me. — Dave Attell
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel… — Chinua Achebe
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you… — David Attenborough
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So,… — Lee Atwater
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:… — Margaret Atwood
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up… — Margaret Atwood
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although… — John James Audubon
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,… — Saint Augustine
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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