People Quotes

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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here. — Margaret Atwood
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the… — Chinua Achebe
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people. — Margaret Atwood
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking… — Margaret Atwood
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to… — Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author… — Margaret Atwood
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not… — Margaret Atwood
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted… — Margaret Atwood
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's… — Chinua Achebe
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to… — Margaret Atwood
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's… — Margaret Atwood
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to… — Chinua Achebe
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try… — Kevyn Aucoin
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
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden

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