Yann Martel Quotes
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.
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There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
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My enemies say I am now carrying on this war for the sole purpose of abolition. It is and will be carried on so long as I am President for the sole purpose of restoring the Union. But no human power can subdue this rebellion without using the Emancipation lever as I have done.
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The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
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Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
