Kingsley Amis Quotes
Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.
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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
