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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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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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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
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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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I suspect the Haitian Ministry of Health's principal contribution to health in Haiti is providing nice, healthy jobs to those Haitians with the connection to get them.
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The nature of the game is pain.
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We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.
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Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
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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.
