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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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Small business is America's engine of job creation.
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When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?
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I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, 'God forbid that it should ever befall me!'
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But with the morning cool reflection came.
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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.
