Yann Martel Quotes
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It's like a contemporary 'Death Wish' with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of '70s films like 'The French Connection.'
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
