Michael Ondaatje Quotes

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Michael Ondaatje

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 12, 1943

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Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Andrew Tobias

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Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

John Cusack

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The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.

John Hull

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Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

Robert Lepage

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Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

Stanley Tucci

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At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.

Trudie Styler

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Rupert Brooke

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I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Mickey Rourke

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I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

Mike Love

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I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

Michael Leunig

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If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.

Julia Michaels

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When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

Dmitry Medvedev

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