Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It's pretty widespread.
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
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In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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What I did in New York was bring people together, an overwhelmingly Democratic state. But I was able to get Democrats to support the most conservative sweeping policy changes in any state in America.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
