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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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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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 still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.
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I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.
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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.
