Kingsley Amis Quotes
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
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I never stopped doing what I did as a child.
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
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I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
