Philip Pullman Quotes
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
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Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
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Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
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When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.
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We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
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I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.
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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
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When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.
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What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?
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I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
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It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.
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Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.
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Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
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Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
