Kingsley Amis Quotes
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
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I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my own stuff.
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'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
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Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
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Canceling the climate pact will loudly demonstrate Trump's willingness to fight - an important step for the White House because, on a concrete level, few tools are available to revive the coal industry.
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My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
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We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.
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Here's the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you're at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I've ever seen.
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Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.
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It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
