Yann Martel Quotes
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.Yann Martel
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
Vincent Cassel -
California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
Zooey Deschanel -
I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.
Laura Trott -
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
Olivia Colman -
Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
Zig Ziglar -
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington -
I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
Kara Walker -
I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
Sam Smith
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
Kapil Dev -
So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
A. R. Rahman -
Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
Parker Stevenson -
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
Gary Hume -
I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
T.I.
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I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
Yancy Butler -
Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.
Paloma Faith -
Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
Earl Blumenauer -
People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
Lee Child -
The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down -
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
Yann Martel