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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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 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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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.
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That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.
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When I first went into financial services, people told me not to be too over-optimistic about change.
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Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.
