Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi

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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

Brown Campbell
- Up
- World
- Travel
That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

Gary Carter
- World
- Me
- Winning
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

Zadie Smith
- Think
- Write
- Luxury
I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

D'Angelo
- World
- Heart
- Me
One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

Wagner Moura
- World
- Country
- Kids
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Aaron Sorkin
- People
- World
- Small