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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Kate Bernheimer
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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.
Jack Black
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
Bebe Rexha
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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.
Hamish Bowles
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With publicity comes humiliation.
Tama Janowitz
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
Olivia Newton-John
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My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.
Camila Alves
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
Camryn Manheim
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.
Harold Pinter
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
Yayoi Kusama
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She was his life,The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all.
Lord Byron
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
Doris Lessing
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People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.
Rachel Caine
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
Alvaro Enrigue
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Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
Burt Bacharach
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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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
