Yann Martel Quotes

Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

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• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

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• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

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• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

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• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
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• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
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• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
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• I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Up
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• Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Same
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• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

  

  Bai Ling
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• In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

  

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• We all have to make choices in life.

  

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• When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  

  Annie Baker
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• If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

  

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  • World
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• That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Art
  • Joy
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• You don't have to resolve every problem of the book at the end, but you do have to resolve some.

  

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  • Book

• The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

  

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  • Work
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• Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
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  • Art
  • Book