Yann Martel Quotes
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.
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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
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I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
