Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.
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I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
