Yann Martel Quotes
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
Yann Martel
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
Patricia Schroeder
I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
Irvine Welsh
I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
Rachel Bloom
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
Famke Janssen
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
Danica Patrick
I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
Rachel Platten
When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
Zoe Sugg
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
James Cameron
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
Mads Mikkelsen
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Mary Wortley Montagu
I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?
Lisa Hanawalt
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Kate Thompson
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
Yann Martel