Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my kid and talk to her face.
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If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
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My routine is really simple. I wash my face with Bioderma Sensibio H2O, and I exfoliate around once a week. I then use an oil-free moisturiser, and that's pretty much it.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
