Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.Paolo Bacigalupi
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman -
I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Samuel Hopkins -
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash -
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo -
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
Harrison Salisbury -
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria -
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
Orhan Pamuk -
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
Idris Elba -
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Harold Kushner -
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Taylor Swift
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz -
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
Zendaya -
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
Gail Porter -
I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
Gail Collins -
I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
Edgar Wright -
I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
Yu Chui Yee
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.
Allison Tolman -
I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
Ashwin Sanghi -
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong -
Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
Adam McKay -
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
Paolo Bacigalupi