Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • Family

• It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

  

  Earle Brown
  • People
  • Time
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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
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• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  

  E. P. Thompson
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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
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  • Michael

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
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  • Losing
  • Key

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
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• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
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• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
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• In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.

  

  Ferid Murad
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• I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

  

  Zac Efron
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• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
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• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
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• Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

  

  Christine Taylor

• The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Remember
  • Control
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• Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

  

  Kanye West
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• I've always played nice guys, so I'd love to be someone that creates a bit of confrontation. I know that sounds bad, but as an actor, I want to explore different things.

  

  Dean Geyer
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• Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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