Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
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Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
