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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect… — Chinua Achebe
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort… — Rowan Atkinson
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
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. — David Attenborough
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an… — David Attenborough
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — David Attenborough
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature… — David Attenborough
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago… — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose,… — David Attenborough
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link… — David Attenborough
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
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof… — Margaret Atwood
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.… — Margaret Atwood
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
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine

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