Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
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We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
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I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
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One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so it knows how much they make, and those workers can't cheat to any significant degree. But the other tax system is for capital. Those with capital get to tell the government what they want to tell. They may get audited, but if their tax returns are of any size the government doesn't have enough of the smart auditors to figure out what's really going on. And there are the rules that allow you to do things like take in money today and pay taxes on it thirty years from now.
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
