Philip Pullman Quotes

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

Philip Pullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

Jim Oberweis

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When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.

Jillian Michaels

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God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

John C. Reilly

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I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

Joel Osteen

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I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

John Travolta

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Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Roger Nash Baldwin

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When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

Ronnie Wood

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I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

Lori Foster

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I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.

Julia Holter

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To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

Julia Quinn

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I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

Denis Leary

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