Yann Martel Quotes
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
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Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.
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I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
