Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all-and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
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Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all-and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell.
