Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Just
  • Snobbery

• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Find
  • Questions
  • Sit

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Part

• Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Clothes
  • Closet
  • Velvet

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Together
  • Young
  • Rich

• I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Work
  • Fun

• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Being
  • Confuse
  • Blunt

• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hope
  • Football
  • Start

• My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • God
  • Man
  • Fall

• Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Never

• I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.

  

  Celine Sciamma
  • Stories
  • Genre
  • Coming-Of-Age

• Huh, guess ah shouldn't huh did it. (imitating Britney's 55-hour husband Jason Allen Alexander) Come on, Mr. Britney. Grammar, grammar.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Husband

• The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

  

  Erik Hersman
  • Problems
  • Anywhere
  • Emergence

• Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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