Philip Pullman Quotes

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

Philip Pullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.

Joe Penny

YouScheduleMuchTVScheduling

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

Menachem Begin

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For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

Angus Young

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You can't expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There's something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.

Ron Howard

LifeLiveMistakesPerfectionRoad

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

Diablo Cody

GoodGreatMeThinkRecognitionYou

I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.

Dawn Steel

TimePassionateRealizeLoudLongest

When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the Thelonious Monk book, I play the music and work with kids in a group to create a color wheel and show how the wheel can be mapped on a 12-tone chromatic scale.

Chris Raschka

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I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.

Selena Gomez

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I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

Norma McCorvey

CourtAnyAttend

If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.

Remo D'Souza

HistoryHappyThinkYouLookWill

When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.

Lydia Millet

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I think, as directors, they may recognize, more than the rest of the body of filmmakers, exactly what you do as a director, because I think sometimes the conception is if the camera isn't swinging around, and it's not pyrotechnic or worthily melodramatic, then the direction is uninvolved.

Lenny Abrahamson

RestDirectionThinkCameraBody

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