Yann Martel Quotes

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Seeing
  • Seriously
  • Bedroom

• I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Playing

• I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.

  

  Flume
  • Home
  • Water
  • Regret

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Dream

• When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Good
  • Start
  • Criticism

• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Trying
  • Been
  • Washington

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Up
  • Started
  • Had

• I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.

  

  Madison McKinley
  • World
  • Friends
  • Leader

• You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Death
  • Transition

• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Unknown

• At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Memory

• My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Heart
  • Parents

• People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Important
  • You

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction