Kingsley Amis Quotes

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Dad

• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Parents
  • Years
  • Presence

• I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Government

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Forever
  • Economists

• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Effect

• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Woman
  • 21st Century
  • Assured

• Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friendship
  • Will
  • Naked

• I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

  

  Rachel True
  • Think
  • Follower
  • Frankly

• I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Think
  • Car

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • World
  • Never
  • Doubt

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Real
  • Job
  • College

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Job

• Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Training
  • Doing
  • Preliminary