Kingsley Amis Quotes
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.
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For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.
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A lot of actresses feel the pressure to constantly look good, to constantly show how well-toned every inch of their bodies are and how much they've been to the gym, not necessarily to do justice to the role they're in, but to point out to the producers out there, 'Hey, look what I've got - remember me for your next project.'
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Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it.
