Martin Amis Quotes
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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No one person is an island.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
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If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.
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I think abortion is a settled issue in New York.
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
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We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].
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The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
