Matthew Pearl Quotes
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
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I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
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Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
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With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!
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My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
