Philip Pullman Quotes
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
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Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
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The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
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My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
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I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!
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Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.
