Martin Amis Quotes
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.
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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
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On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !
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Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.
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I always loved magic and fantasy/adventure series as a kid.
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When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.
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There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
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Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
