Matthew Pearl Quotes
Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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She is all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is.
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Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.
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...The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit...
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In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.
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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
