Yann Martel Quotes
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
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Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
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Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
