Martin Amis Quotes
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I'm not politically correct.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
