Martin Amis Quotes
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.Martin Amis
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
Viggo Mortensen -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn -
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln -
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
Saint Bernard
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill -
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
Ira Glass -
Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
Rachel Shelley -
If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
R. Kelly -
I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
Laila Robins -
For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
Tammy Bruce
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To survive is to win.
Zhang Yimou -
There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
Zoe Foster Blake -
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander -
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
Baz Luhrmann
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I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
Philip Roth -
There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.
Anthony Fauci -
Politically we are very different now. But those were nice days then.
Ayad Allawi -
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau -
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
Martin Amis