Philip Pullman Quotes
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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The world is always terrible.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I know I look super young.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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There were not very many girls in rock n' roll together with men that had a heavy rock sound as well as a more acoustic sound like Heart.
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Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.
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Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1
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In Lyra’s heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won.
