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		When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paolo Bacigalupi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I love writing songs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sade Adu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Queen Rania of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Kirn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zygmunt Bauman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madison Smartt Bell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mallory Jansen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Maarten Troost 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ's example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of our Heavenly Father for her. By so doing, she can be a powerful influence for good in today's world and meet the challenges of mortality. I have known such women, and they have been a guiding light to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Margaret D. Nadauld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's always good news when you're closer to the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fabiola Gianotti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Drugs scared me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry David 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paolo Bacigalupi