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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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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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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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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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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When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
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When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.
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Robert Smigel is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches. He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.
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I'm not a girly girl, never have been. I really admire those who love to frock up.
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When you're by yourself, you realize how much pressure you're under and how much work you have to do.
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There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.
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If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.
