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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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
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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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A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.
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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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Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.
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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
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Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
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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.
