Kingsley Amis Quotes
Should you revisit usStay a little longerAnd get to know the place...On local life we trustThe resident witnessNot the royal tourist.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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At the end of the day, we want love, and we want to feel loved.
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I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.
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There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.
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There is more to life than show business.
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You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.
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Should you revisit usStay a little longerAnd get to know the place...On local life we trustThe resident witnessNot the royal tourist.
