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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the… — Leon Askin
In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have… — Julian Assange
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's… — David Attenborough
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you… — Margaret Atwood
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in… — Chinua Achebe
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was… — Chinua Achebe
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack… — Margaret Atwood
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I… — Margaret Atwood
There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever… — Kevyn Aucoin
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself… — Kevyn Aucoin
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had… — Abu Abbas
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has… — Jane Austen
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get… — Paul Auster

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