Yann Martel Quotes
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.Yann Martel
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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 -
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
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 -
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 -
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
Gary Lineker -
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
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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 -
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 -
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
Malala Yousafzai -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
Eartha Kitt -
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
Pat Oliphant -
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
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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 -
You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
Naomi Scott -
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman -
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
Sam Shepard -
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
D. B. Sweeney -
The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
Edmund Morgan -
I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
Victoria Principal -
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
Nancy Pelosi -
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel