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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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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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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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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I am a quiet person's nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, arguably President Obama's best Cabinet appointment, has been leading a quiet revolution in clean-energy technology. Innovation is transforming this industry, costs are plummeting and entrepreneurs are devising radical new systems that create American jobs - in addition to protecting the planet.
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Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
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An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
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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.
