Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I try to do my best.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.
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I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
