Kingsley Amis Quotes
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
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The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
