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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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
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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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No one ever cut Katharine Hepburn down to size.
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I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about my skin color.
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My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
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My mom and her parents had to leave because her brother had left a couple of years before and the government was really upset. They took away both my grandparents' jobs, so they couldn't make a living. They had to sell all their things. They weren't allowed to take more than $500 out of the country.
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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.'
