Yann Martel Quotes
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
Yann Martel
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Vera Farmiga
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
Forest Whitaker
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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?
Ira Glass
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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.
Mads Mikkelsen
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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.
Garth Nix
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
Rafael dos Anjos
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A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.
Britt Ekland
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The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.
Aja Naomi King
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
Ang Lee
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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
John Calvin
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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.
Yann Martel