Matthew Pearl Quotes
I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.
