Martin Amis Quotes

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

Martin Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jen Kirkman

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I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

Matthew Morrison

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I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.

Tommy Lee Jones

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My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.

Mary Gordon

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As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.

Mindy Kaling

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Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

Dennis Ritchie

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I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

Clay Aiken

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My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

Chuck Berry

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I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.

Brie Larson

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Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

Brooke Shields

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To put on an England shirt to represent your country is a great honour. That feeling never changes.

Ashley Cole

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

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