Philip Pullman Quotes
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
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Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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I asked you to conquer your fear, but all you did was give in to it. If you were in love with her, that would be one thing. Love is something to be afraid of, but this, this is embarrassing. So she talks too much, so she's too enthused about every little thing, so what? Get in, get your question answered, and get out. Stand up to her, for cryin' out loud!'
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Death,-a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Si veris magna paraturfama bonis et si successu nuda remotoinspicitur virtus, quidquid laudamus in ullomaiorum, fortuna fuit.
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Your church is a whore: she sells her favors to the rich.
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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.
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I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
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I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.
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Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.
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You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
