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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
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Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
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My greatest wish β€” other than salvation β€” was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
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Bapu Gandhi said, β€˜All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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