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've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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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 most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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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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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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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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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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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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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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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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The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
