Yann Martel Quotes
I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
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I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
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Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
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When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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Take three quarts of duck's milk...
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She says noWhen she means yesAnd what she wantsYou know that I can't guess.When we want moreYou know we ask for lessSuch is the language of love...
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I love the sound of those engines.
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Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
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'Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...'
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All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
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I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.
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I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.
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I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.
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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.