Kingsley Amis Quotes
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.
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I think certain people may make it to sexual; and then others will offset that with the depth of R & B and all of its substance it has to have, in order to be called R & B or, known for an looked at to be called R & B and I kind of straddle the fence on that one because in my earlier years I was the 'Nasty Man,'.
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I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
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I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
