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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But he understood that it is better to live to the very end of his time on Earth with a longing not for the past but for the dreams that have not yet come true - an Israel that is secure in a just and lasting peace with its neighbors.
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It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.
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I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.
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We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.
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Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?
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The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
