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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The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
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I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
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I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round
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The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.
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My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.
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I hold the subtle knife on behalf of the Guild.
