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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Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.
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If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?
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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.
