Philip Pullman Quotes
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
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Music is organized sound.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.
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Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves
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There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.
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If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
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This relationship is going to be built on trust.
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Who is this man who's got the knife?
