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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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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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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I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
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Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an enormous number of mistakes that are made along the way.
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After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.
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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.
