Martin Amis Quotes

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Role
  • Lady
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• I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Find
  • Key

• 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
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• President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Experience
  • America
  • Age

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • School
  • Job
  • Teacher

• When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Tears

• I did two or three plays every summer.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Summer
  • Two
  • Three

• I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Really
  • Theory

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Audience

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I want to play until the end.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Want
  • Play
  • End

• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Driving
  • More
  • Go

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Lying
  • Run
  • Office

• I don't shave when I'm not working.

  

  Darren Criss

• At one point, you were that employee who looked like a deer in headlights. Confused, lost, and not understanding your purpose within the organization. Even though you have the appropriate skills, you felt like you were in over your head. That is, until an amazing boss empowered you.

  

  John Rampton
  • Lost
  • Amazing
  • Purpose

• My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • People
  • Up

• Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

  

  Martin Amis
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  • Mother