Kingsley Amis Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.
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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
