"Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry,……" — Martin Amis
"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."
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123 Quotes by Martin Amis
Martin Amis has 123 quotes on this site.
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an…
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark -…
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going…
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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More Artistry Quotes
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The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's…
— Alton Brown
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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create,…
— Maya Angelou
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When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior…
— Unknown Author
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
— Robert Browning
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
— Aldous Huxley
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A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
— Wolfgang Puck
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To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The…
— Whitney Houston
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Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more…
— John Derbyshire
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It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to…
— Pauline Kael
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There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's…
— Kathy Acker
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The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.
— Calvin Seerveld
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One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did…
— Unknown Author
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