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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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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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