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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
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done… — Richard Attenborough
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… — Chinua Achebe
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted… — 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 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 know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under… — Margaret Atwood
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways… — 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
We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also… — Margaret Atwood
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or… — Kevyn Aucoin
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations… — 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

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