Philip Pullman Quotes
Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
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It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
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One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not out of this sense of duty and that you'd be condemned to hell forever if you didn't, but because it will make all your lives better.
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We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.
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To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.
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Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
