Martin Amis Quotes

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

Martin Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFamilyShoppingRoadLanguage

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Matt Emmons

LifeFailureGrowthFutureLiveYou

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

Michael Chiklis

LosingPeopleWinYouI CanPlay

There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it.

John Sayles

PeopleCareFeelJumpGoSometimes

Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.

John Singleton

BusinessTelevisionProducing

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

MeFindGoPoetBeenBefore

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

Tony Oller

I AmMeNowShareSomethingMade

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.

Mirko Cro Cop

BreakMentalBlockObviously

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

Miyavi

WifeMeLanguageFeelTryingWant

Chicago is definitely more of a country place now. The friends who I thought never in a million years would like country now are huge fans. I love that.

Brett Eldredge

WorldSongThinkYouI CanNow

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

Brigitte Bardot

LoveMeFeelEasyCareerNever

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

Brittany Murphy

LieLiarOutAdvantageOffPull

I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.

Antony Beevor

LoveHistoryI LoveCertainly

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