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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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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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.
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We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
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I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.
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I don't know how to play evil.
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But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.
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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.
