Martin Amis Quotes

When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

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• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

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• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  

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• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

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• Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

  

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• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

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• I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

  

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• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

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  • Years
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• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

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• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

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• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

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  • Time
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• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  

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• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

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• To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

  

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• Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.

  

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• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

  

  Martin Amis
  • She
  • Book
  • Vision