Allison Pearson Quotes

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

We have deep depth.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

I didn't like characters that were one- or two-dimensional. I liked a guy to have a lot of different levels to him and layers, and I think I pretty well succeeded with Thanos.

I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.