Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.Paolo Bacigalupi
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
Ed Harris -
I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Ovid -
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Talcott Parsons -
I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
Olivia Colman -
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. Tillman -
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
Karan Johar -
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
Magic Johnson -
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
Karisma Kapoor -
I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
Randy Travis
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama -
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
Carlton Cuse -
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
R. Kelly -
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Ed Case
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Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
Jane Asher -
I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.
Johnny Mathis -
Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.
Marvin J. Ashton -
Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
Raf Simons -
Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
Betty Smith -
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
Paolo Bacigalupi