Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'

Paolo Bacigalupi

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Money
  • Father

• Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Late
  • Fast

• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Couple

• For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Dream
  • Reality

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Always

• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Power
  • Guys
  • Fine

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Believe
  • She
  • Character

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Wonder
  • Child
  • Destiny

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Parents
  • Wish
  • Guilt

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Unique

• Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of a doubt that when exhibited overseas they have a detrimental effect of immigration . . . Everything that can be done should be done, to encourage the circulation of screen pictures that demonstrate that snow scenes and dog-trains are but a minor phase in Canadian life.

  

  Charles Paul
  • Films
  • Snow
  • Scenes

• I'm not talking about what you hear from 5 per cent of the population on the radio, in the papers. I don't pay attention to it. I travel around the country. I'm happy I have a good relationship with the people.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

  

  John McAfee
  • America
  • Happy

• When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Happy
  • Amazing
  • Instinct