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Matthew Pearl Quotes

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

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Hope History Shadow Important Idea

We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.

Blood Hand Right Years Out Up

I like doing stuff with my friends.

Friends Doing Like Stuff

'Futurama' was a big deal. People had already started to hear about me a little bit here and there, but that was the first series I booked to be a regular on.

People Me First Little Big Started

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Life Good People Good People Enjoy

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.

Robert Gottlieb

Life Great Anniversary New York City

Sometimes you go into a waiting room, and the audition room is right there, and the walls are extremely thin. And you can hear every breath that they're saying. And you're used to that. So you go in, and you're like, 'Oh, whatever.'

Michael Angarano

Walls Waiting Saying You Sometimes

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Brainy Inspiration Material Delivered

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Business Who Those Prefer Cannibals

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office.

People End Year Kind First Office

My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.

Children Great Best Beach Day Go

I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough.

Michelle Alexander

I Am Building End Enough Movement

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