Matthew Pearl Quotes
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion
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Police do not belong in war zones.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
