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Martin Amis Quotes

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Age Face Late Professional Who

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Me Nice Butt Get Finally His

With fashion, it's all about timing and holding out for the right thing.

Fashion Timing The Right Thing Right

I love America. I love Americans.

Love America I Love

I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

People Advice You Go Desire Try

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me.

Work Time Me Team Genius America

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

Character Gun Person Audience Within

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

Story Tease Must Promise Still

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

Mother People Blood Jewish Tell Jew

I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.

Daily Myself Yourself Think Talking

When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.

Children New York Parents Growing Up

Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device.

Memory World Doing Sometimes Places

I have a quad rep in my house, so I'm doing bench presses and pull ups on that, any sort of basic strength movements I can do at home.

Strength Home Doing House I Can Rep

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