Martin Amis Quotes
Just as a Philistine does not on the whole devote his life to his art, so a misogynist does not devote his inner life to women. Larkin's men friends devolved into pen-pals. Such intimacies as he shared, he shared with women.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
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It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
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And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
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Just as a Philistine does not on the whole devote his life to his art, so a misogynist does not devote his inner life to women. Larkin's men friends devolved into pen-pals. Such intimacies as he shared, he shared with women.
