Yann Martel Quotes
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
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I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.
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The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.
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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
