#out

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#backwards #come #curious #forward #grandparents

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes. ↗

— James Purefoy

#because #decide #different #early #famous

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#bath #enough #even #fleas #go

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it. ↗

— James Purefoy

#always #am #been #being #corner

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months. ↗

— James Purefoy

#actor #being #challenge #completely #different

Without money honor is merely a disease. ↗

— Jean Racine

#honor #merely #money #without

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase. ↗

— Paul Putner

#advisor #asked #careers #divers #going

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#angry #bee #blind #buzzing #every