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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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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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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MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
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It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
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On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.
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A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
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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.
