Philip Pullman Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
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The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
