Philip Pullman Quotes
Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.
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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
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I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't happening for me. But I went on the show and...
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I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.
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In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.
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I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament.
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So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.
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If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine.
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Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
