Yann Martel Quotes
There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
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As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
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I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
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Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
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My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
