Kingsley Amis Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
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The leaf that spreads in the sunlight is the only holiness there is. I haven’t found holiness in the faiths of mortals, nor in their music, nor in their dreams: it’s out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don’t know what it is, this holiness: but it’s there, and it looks at the sky.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
