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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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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Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.
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They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!
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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
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You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.
