Yann Martel Quotes
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
