Matthew Pearl Quotes

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

Matthew Pearl

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• I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fashion

• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Real
  • True
  • Hard

• Islam is a peaceful religion.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Religion
  • Islam
  • Peaceful

• When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Clothes

• You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • You
  • U.S.

• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Moment
  • New York
  • Library

• Yeah, but I have the box set out now.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Now
  • Box
  • Set

• Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Punk

• Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • America
  • Young

• I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Ignorance
  • Naturally

• Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Amazing

• I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Long
  • Children
  • Television

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Women

• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gives
  • Post
  • Fond

• Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up

• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Genius
  • Poems
  • Shakespeare

• There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.

  

  Deena Metzger
  • Drama
  • Divine
  • Ourselves

• I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.

  

  Dennis Cooper
  • Risk
  • Lonely
  • Fact

• Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Known
  • Ourselves
  • Another