The World Motivation
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
“A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.”
— Yann Martel · Crowd
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
The band can't exist without the crowd, and the crowd wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the band, and it really is something magical that people need.
I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
I get this weird energy that starts in my feet and goes up and fills my head, and I just want to get everyone in the crowd to laugh.
If you look at Mohali, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, they host T20 games, IPL all in a year. That's the reason the crowd stays away from the Tests matches.
The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.