Kingsley Amis Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It's not really necessary; there's a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term 'Knives and Pens' to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
