Yann Martel Quotes
Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.
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The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
