Matthew Pearl Quotes

Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.

Matthew Pearl

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StyleStoryBecomeMoreSimpler

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

Melvyn Bragg

ThoughtProveDeadProfoundShallow

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Jeff Miller

AttentionSeePaidCriminalFarToo

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

John Thorn

YouthGrowSummerOldSameHeroes

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

Stephen Costello

LoveMusicBeautifulGreatOpera

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

Sue Naegle

FamilyActuallyTotallyPrude

For a long time, almost 14 years, I wrestled in Japan, so I didn't think I would leave New Japan Pro Wrestling, but I started changing my mind. I wanted to see the other world. I wanted to change something. I wanted to be bigger.

Shinsuke Nakamura

ChangeTimeMindWorldThinkLong

Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained.

Robert Drew

WorkSpiritualMindProblemsCare

I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.

Rivers Cuomo

ElectricityHobbyEggGrowingBottle

What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom.

Loretta Lynch

FreedomLawInclusionMattersTurn

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Judi Dench

LiveSocietySometimesEverything

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

FatherDeathBlessingsLovingTake

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

Drew Carey

StarWantedTVComicReally

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