Philip Pullman Quotes

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.

Philip Pullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

Joe Cocker

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Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Maurice Jarre

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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Ann Brashares

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I do not like sweets. But if I have to choose one, it has to be rasmalai.

Shreya Ghoshal

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I think when you're a fan of music - at least the way I've been a fan to artists that have really touched me - you're with them for the long haul. They might do things that you don't understand or agree with, but I think I've always tried to hold my judgment and give them the space to do what they need to do.

Matisyahu

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Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

Mike Singletary

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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

Lobsang Tenzin

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I live very gently.

Josh Gondelman

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It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

Josh Hutcherson

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Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Arthur Henderson

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Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Archie Moore

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