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Martin Amis Quotes

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Father Mother Woman Impossible

My daughter did this production of 'Romeo & Juliet' when she was younger, and this agent said she should work, and I said, 'You know what? I'd rather just have her go to school.'

Work Daughter School You Know Said

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

Stephen Sprouse

Music Time Art People Fashion Think

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way.

Job Brother Dream Way Kid Always

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.

Rodrigo Santoro

Character Time Step Hotel Back Go

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Intelligence Civilization Own Weight

In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.

Jonathan Coleman

People Writing Opinion Walking You

For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle.

Health Career Lifestyle Much How

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

William Kingdon Clifford

Great Myself Believe Be True Done

My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.

Music Rock Softer Folk Basically

When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.

People Me Opinion Doing Place Know

When you are successful, there is this tendency to repeat the elements that we believe have worked in a certain film. Then it becomes formulaic, and there is no getting back.

Believe You Back Repeat Successful

My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.

Martin Henderson

Mother War World Grandfather Leave

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