Paul Di Filippo Quotes
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.
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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
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It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
