I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.
Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.
Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.
I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!
If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at. '
I admire many women that have come before me, heavy influencers such as Oprah, such as Beyoncé, and I'm witnessing the fruit of their work and experiencing their legacy now and they're not even close to the finish line.
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.
That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.
As an actor, you have to do things out of passion sometimes. I'm not in it for a lot of money. But I only need one car, and I'd rather work with people I really do respect and admire. And if you walk that path, you don't get written about too much in the tabloids, and I'm good with that.
There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.