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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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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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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Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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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 cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
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I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
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Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.
