Philip Pullman Quotes
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.
