Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
She does not know how little anyone cares to separate wheat from chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
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Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
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While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.
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She does not know how little anyone cares to separate wheat from chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field.
