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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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
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I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.
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Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.
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I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.
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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.
