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 love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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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 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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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'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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We have invested in many of our customers in the health care business by lending or leasing money for equipment purchases or investing in some customers to help them grow business.
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I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
