Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.