Yann Martel Quotes
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Yann Martel
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
Vik Muniz
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
Fareed Zakaria
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
Patricia Hewitt
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Edmund Burke
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
Daniel Bruhl
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
Gabriela Sabatini
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
Jack Dangermond
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
Ice Cube
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Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
Ha-Joon Chang
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
Nancy Kress
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Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
Matt Smith
Poison
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Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.
Mac Anderson
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
William R. Alger
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Yann Martel
