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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I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
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I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.
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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.
