Kingsley Amis Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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I am not a fan of books.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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Germany was very strict; there was this phrase ‘serious music’. But in New York, there was no barrier – people were only interested in whether music was wild and interesting and beautiful.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
