Yann Martel Quotes
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.
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I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
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My father's a police officer, and he's told me numerous times about his training and how they've gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation.
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When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
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We're looking at it that we're still one team. We want to put on blinders for now.
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
