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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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
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Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
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And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
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Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
