Kingsley Amis Quotes

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

Kingsley Amis

• Life
• Drink
• Authenticity
• Devotion
• Commercial
• Naive

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Internet
  • Shopping

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Always

• The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Job
  • Same

• Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Confidence
  • Confident
  • Qualities

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Think
  • I Can
  • Throw

• I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Respect

• Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Sense
  • Wrong
  • Often

• So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Want
  • Play
  • Instrument

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Past
  • Present
  • They Say

• 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Love
  • Science
  • Doctor

• I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • World
  • Moving
  • Grow

• It is important to note, further, that the morality which the prophets had in mind in their strenuous insistence on righteousness was not merely the private morality of the home, but the public morality on which national life is founded. They said less about the pure heart for the individual than of just institutions for the nation.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mind

• My heart…my mind… are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Business

• Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Values
  • Wealth
  • Capitalism

• Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Life
  • Drink
  • Authenticity