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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. ”
Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ”
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. ”
If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ”
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. ”
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone. ”
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. ”
My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74. ”
I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour. ”
I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures! ”