Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.
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I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
