Martin Amis Quotes
Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
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I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
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Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.
