Kingsley Amis Quotes
You can't screw the rich, something in Ronnie muttered as Miss Quick got off him with quite as much alacrity as she had got on him. You have to let them screw you. Or else you leave out screwing altogether.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I received free health care.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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I am happy and content because I think I am.
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La clémence est la plus belle marqueQui fasse à l'univers connaître un vrai monarque.
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My country has no history, only a past.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.
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You can't screw the rich, something in Ronnie muttered as Miss Quick got off him with quite as much alacrity as she had got on him. You have to let them screw you. Or else you leave out screwing altogether.
