Martin Amis Quotes
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.
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Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
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As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.
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Our vulgar delight in American vulgarity.
