Philip Pullman Quotes
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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I am who I am.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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I love that because that's what I'm supposed to be doing - whether it's accepted b everybody or not. I'm supposed to be pushing that envelope and trying new things. And people are supposed to say, Hov, you might have went too far.
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Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
