Martin Amis Quotes
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I have a great office.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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Acting was something I had to do.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I'm very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it's hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I'm a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I've spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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With 'Into The Gloss' and now Glossier, the reason it was successful was because there were so many like-minded women out there who were also dissatisfied with their beauty experiences.
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Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
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And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
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When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
