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?'
Sam Jaeger -
I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
Saina Nehwal -
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Orlando Bloom -
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!
Carlos Santana Santana -
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
Tariq Ali
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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.
E. L. Doctorow -
I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
G. Edward Griffin -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez -
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.'
Barry Humphries
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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.
Yahya Jammeh -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
A. Scott Berg -
It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
Kapil Dev
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
Hallie Ephron -
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
I think probably it is very tough out there at the moment (for Skandia) with what has been going on.
J. M. Roberts -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel