Philip Pullman Quotes
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
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I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.
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Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
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Nature is the art of God.
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Of course; a nurse wouldn’t have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke’s heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
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Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for 'vulgarity'; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.
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My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
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I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
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I hold the subtle knife on behalf of the Guild.
