Martin Amis Quotes
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
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The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
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I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
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It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
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Thus our duties to animals are indirectly duties to humanity.
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No root, no fruit.
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We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets
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As a society, we need to refocus on creating an economy that works for everyone. I believe the business community is in the best position to lead the way.
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His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
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We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.
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The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
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I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
