Philip Pullman Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I think God gives you all good things at the same time.
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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
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As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
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We are not communists.
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Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
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Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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My biggest problem with everything going on is the lack of understanding and the lack of respect in this world.
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You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.
