Paul Di Filippo Quotes
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
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Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself.
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
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Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
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I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.
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We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
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I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.
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I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.
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I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.
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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
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There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
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If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
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Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
