Matthew Pearl Quotes

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Matthew Pearl

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I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There's gold, black and white and they're amazing!

Jessica Mauboy

Black And WhiteAmazingGoldBlack

In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.

Angela Ahrendts

LuxuryYouWillMeansReally

I understand what needs to be done to fix the economy.

Steve Mnuchin

DoneUnderstandFixEconomyNeeds

The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

Tom Hodgkinson

HappyChaosShoppingBookInternet

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Ruben Blades

LawyerMilitaryGoingFiguredRegime

When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'

Mickey Rooney

JusticePeaceKnowSay

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Mindy Kaling

RomanticWorldRulesHumanDifferent

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

InjusticeNeverKingdomLasts

Style without content is bad style.

Louis MacNeice

StyleBadContentWithout

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

Johnny Vegas

EnoughStageWithoutOutBigStigma

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Diane Abbott

FoodInformationTideJunk FoodJunk

John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

Douglas Brinkley

ChallengePeopleThinkDevilYou

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