Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good horse rider: I thought falling off was normal, and I would just get back on again. I didn't realise you weren't meant to fall off.
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When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.
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Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
