Philip Pullman Quotes

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

Honestly, I felt pressure more when I was a lot younger.

I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.

The success of 'Humsafar' comes with an added responsibility that whatever I do next has to be as good if not better, and I also don't want to miss out on my son's growing up years.

When I was a young girl, I used to dream about what I would be when I grew up. I thought that I wanted to be a nurse, then a teacher, even a pilot at one point.

Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

I had to grow up very quickly.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.

Some teachers used to worry and ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?'

Philly will be the place for me for my whole career.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

It wasn't until people started asking me what my plans were for the future - if I would go to college or go pro - that it really hit me what I wanted to do. I decided I wanted to go pro and try to be in Wimbledon.

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

I hate the term black sheep, but I just felt like I wasn't keeping up. It was a subtle pressure I put on myself.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.