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Matthew Pearl Quotes

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

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Beginning Shadow Minds More 1920s

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

John Frankenheimer

Directing Percent Casting

I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.

Lawyer More Sexist Than Journalist

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

Try Always Something Going Artists

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

Mother Nothing Everything Out Make

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.

Friends You Say Movies Circumstances

Looking back, I can see that my life with David was molded by forces beyond my control and even my understanding. Still, I don't regret trying.

Life Looking Back Control Looking

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

Travis Bradberry

Work Listening You Find Know Boring

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Love Support People Understanding

For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.

Janine di Giovanni

Life Good Father Mother Darkness

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

Baseball Me Control Saying Game You

I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.

Work Myself Coffee Pain Seeing Go

And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Direction Fighting American Long New

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