Martin Amis Quotes

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

Martin Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Stefan Banach

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I've always been a fan of comedy. I've always enjoyed it. It's something I'm very passionate about; it's like lifeblood to me. I had to pursue it. I thought I had a little bit of talent, and if I could make a living at it, I would do it. It's worked out so far.

Rob Riggle

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When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

Roddy Doyle

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If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

Michael Novak

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Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

Michael Keaton

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There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

Lucinda Williams

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I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

Jules Shear

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Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

Debbie Harry

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I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

Chris Elliott

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To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

Coretta Scott King

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When I say I'm living the dream, I honestly don't know how it can get any better.

Cole Swindell

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I love to create clothing for the everyday woman. I get joy out of that because it's something that we need in this industry.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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