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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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
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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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I find I'm an old soul.
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
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My teammates, they keep you focused.
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My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.
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Nothing is more incorrect than the mistaken idea that a decades-old chronic disease can be healed through a very long fast, or a radically extended, strict fruit diet.
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I tell my graduate students at Bard College, ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current system… Sustainable business asks, ‘How would nature do this?’
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I hold the subtle knife on behalf of the Guild.
