#ren

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cinema #complete #different #experience #i

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. ↗

— Yann Martel

#canadian #four #i #live #more

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ↗

— Yann Martel

#failure #i #i think #life #my life

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ↗

— Jose Marti

#contribute #created #evil #free #human

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#always #bags #because #came #children

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. ↗

— Archer John Porter Martin

#desired #different #even #learned #much

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#any #cast #certain #characters #different

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#anymore #away #bit #blew #cobwebs