Matthew Pearl Quotes
Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.
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I will keep working hard!
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.
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I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.
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You can't fake listening. It shows.
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Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.
