Matthew Pearl Quotes

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

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• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Humor

• The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Real
  • Debate

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Competition
  • Talent
  • Back

• Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rich

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Long
  • Done
  • Business

• Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Creative
  • Consequences

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Regret

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Help
  • Cancer
  • Jump

• If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job
  • Play
  • Living

• you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

  

  Judy Blume
  • Pain
  • Causes
  • Happened

• Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."

  

  James Cromwell
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Performance

• The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Up
  • Path
  • Wind

• Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Idea
  • Moment
  • Romance