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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America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
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According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
