Michael Ondaatje Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.
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On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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Princess Peach is in many ways the quintessential stock-character version of the damsel in distress.
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If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
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We played them good, we had them going. We've got to keep the pressure on, punish them. We didn't do that. I think it was a little bit of jitters, maybe.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't.
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A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
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We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.
