Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I think I have a good head on my shoulders.
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Mama was a looker,Lord, how she shined.Papa was a good'n,But the jealous kind.Papa loved Mama;Mama loved men.Mama's in the graveyard;Papa's in the pen.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
