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Martin Amis Quotes

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1949

Topics

Curves Career Human Follow Stamina

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

Mind Ideas Will Roles Specific

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

Thought Horse Wrong Way First Up

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Live Faith American Labor Right

When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Respect Law Country Create Human

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.

Power Make It Happen Want Way Write

You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.

Drive You Aim Need Something Must

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.

Roy Lichtenstein

Work People Looking Thought Museums

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

Rupert Sheldrake

People Research Writing Voice Doing

I'm that person: I will literally do everything to not get out of bed, so I have alarms set for every 15 minutes.

Person Bed Will Everything Out Get

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Loretta Napoleoni

Revolution Trapped Bring Historical

What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.

Character Together People You Why

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

Man Identity Action Bond Look Arts

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