Yann Martel Quotes

I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

Yann Martel

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• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Enjoy
  • Very
  • Personal

• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Up
  • Real
  • Now

• No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Should

• When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Different
  • Success
  • Study

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Very
  • Most

• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Home

• It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Starting

• Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Way
  • Sport
  • Maximum

• The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Up
  • Try
  • Mindset

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

  

  Luke Combs
  • Up
  • Song

• There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Real
  • Career
  • Rest

• courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers!

  

  Kristina Laferne Roberts
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Prayer

• People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Together
  • Laugh

• Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Men
  • Money
  • Mad

• I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Up
  • Live
  • Hope