Philip Pullman Quotes
'That is how it seems....But we can’t read the darkness, Mr. Scoresby. It is more than possible that I might be wrong.'
Quotes to Explore
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.
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I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
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Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.
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If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
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There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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Fuck that! Conor McGregor, you're taking everything I've worked for, motherfucker! I'm going to fight your fucking ass!
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...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.
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In Hollywood, you just kind of fail upwards.
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If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.
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Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an author's existence and find out that we ought to have been reading him or her all along.
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It's not that Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter aren't really great mediums - let's be honest; technology allowing us to be able to contact people around the world is fantastic - but it's also so detrimental.
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When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
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I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.
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'That is how it seems....But we can’t read the darkness, Mr. Scoresby. It is more than possible that I might be wrong.'
