Matthew Pearl Quotes
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
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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.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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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.
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I really like children to watch my movies.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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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.
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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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.
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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
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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.
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Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
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Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
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I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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It's convenient to call it a minivan because of those sliding doors. But the U.S. is the only market in the world in which vans carry a negative stigma as 'soccer mom' vehicles, so we don't want it known as a minivan here.
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I didn't care because what mattered is that Dante's voice felt real. And I felt real. Until Dante, being with other people was the hardest thing in the world for me. But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Not in my world, they weren't.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
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Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.
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Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
