Martin Amis Quotes

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

Martin Amis

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• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sleep

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Rose

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Dark
  • Woman
  • Hair

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Business
  • Question
  • Door

• We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Hands
  • Dinner

• In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Opinion
  • Changes
  • Fix

• I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Mother

• Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.

  

  Anna Getty
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • Hand
  • Dog

• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Year
  • Two
  • Last

• It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Mother
  • Father