Martin Amis Quotes
America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
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I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
