Yann Martel Quotes
We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Say yes to everything.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.
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I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
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I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
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Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.
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My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
