Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.
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We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
