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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time. — Rowan Atkinson
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was… — Rowan Atkinson
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful… — Chinua Achebe
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. — David Attenborough
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. — David Attenborough
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms… — David Attenborough
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds… — David Attenborough
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a… — David Attenborough
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck… — David Attenborough
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or… — Chinua Achebe
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all… — Margaret Atwood
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing. — Margaret Atwood
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative… — Margaret Atwood
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look… — Margaret Atwood

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