Yann Martel Quotes
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.Yann Martel
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
Bart Gordon -
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
Dan Aykroyd -
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
Samuel Goldwyn -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
I. King Jordan -
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
Haley Joel Osment
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
Narada Michael Walden -
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo -
I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith -
The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
Sam Graves
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A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.
Han Suyin -
It's a tough loss. We've been through a lot of adversity all season long. We've been able to bounce back and come back.
Craig Biggio -
I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.
Clive Granger -
He Obama lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country! The phoney sic electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!
Donald Trump -
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
Yann Martel