Martin Amis Quotes
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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X Out has helped me keep up my confidence, and I know it can help anyone who would rather have fun than worry about blemishes. If you want clear, seriously good-looking skin, X Out is for you.
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I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.
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What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.
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The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.
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To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.
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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
