"I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castawayâ€™s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming oneâ€™s life away."

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Source : "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

Yann Martel

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“The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.”
“I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.”
“Iâ€™m not afraid to take a swing and miss.”
“My understanding of the way sex scenes work is that you're surrounded by crew, and you're cold, and you have to do it eight times 'cause they didn't get the lighting. It doesn't sound pleasant, but you think that actors actually enjoy it?”
“A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.”
“To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.”
“The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.”

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