Matthew Pearl Quotes
If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
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There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
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I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.
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A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.
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If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
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If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.
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The monetary policy committee could either keep rates constant, increase them, or bring them down. There are three options possible compared to when it is accommodative.
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If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.
