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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Women in Islamic countries are exposed to male domination as a rule rather than as an exception... If anyone protests... as I have done, you are sure to be branded as a witch... What I demand is freedom for women from male domination and a uniform code... It that can be construed as blasphemy, I cannot help it.
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As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
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Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.
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When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.
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You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.
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Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
