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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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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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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Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been formed in the Mediterranean, and of other convulsions, shows that the ancients had not been inattentive observers of the changes which had taken place on the earth within the memory of man.
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I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'
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You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
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The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
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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.
