Philip Pullman Quotes
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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My mom was very much alpha. I admired her because she was the working mom on the go. She's such a boss. She's an OG, as they say.
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We've got to take care of our own business. If we don't do that, we could be sitting at home in a few weeks.
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If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
