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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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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.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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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?'
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Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
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There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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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.
