"I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to."

-- Kingsley Amis

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“Love is an intensification of life.”
“Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.”
“In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.”
“When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.”
“I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.”
“Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.”

Source : Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, ch. 1, 1863.
“We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.”

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