Yann Martel Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.
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The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
