Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
Quotes to Explore
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Talent is very hot.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
