Kingsley Amis Quotes
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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I've always loved high style in low company.
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I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.
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Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am
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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
