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Philip Pullman Quotes

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: October 19, 1946

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Good Best Training Writing I Can

Claire Danes in 'Homeland' just blew me away. She is so intuitive, and her choices are so unique. When you see somebody like that work, you just have to stop in your tracks. It is a lesson in what good acting really is, and it is so inspiring to be around.

Work Good Me Choices You Acting

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Yourself Trying Goal Actor Always

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.

John Lloyd Young

Mother Great Empathy People Feel

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

Day Learn Every Day More Starting

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

Me Thought Never Point Shoot Just

'Diversity' is like, 'Ugh, I have to do diversity.' I recognize and celebrate what it is, but that word, to me, is a disconnect.

Diversity Me Celebrate Disconnect

I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call it that, was to discover and learn and be excited by what I was doing. If I didn't have that, I would find it elsewhere.

Ambition Learn Doing You Find Goal

When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, New York, a nice little town by the Hudson, and nothin' ever interested me except being your usual high school big shot, which I was an' loved it, played all the sports and goofed around, always out on the street with the guys, everything was funny t'me.

Funny Sports School New York Me

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

Life Live You Goal Ultimate Goal

Transformed people transform people.

People Transform Transformed

The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.

World Strategy Google Need Facebook

Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.

Responsibility Walk Together People

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