Philip Pullman Quotes
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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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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'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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For me, I feel like I'm slowly accomplishing what I've always wanted to do. I've always dreamed really big, and my mom planted that in all three of my siblings: 'You guys can do anything.'
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I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!
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Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'
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I have never been a good dancer but am very passionate about it.
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
