Martin Amis Quotes
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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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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I don't go for the flash and panache.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.
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The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
