Martin Amis Quotes
When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
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My faith keeps me strong.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
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Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
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When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
