Paul Di Filippo Quotes

Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

Paul Di Filippo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1954

Topics

ChangeAncestorsHardClearlyWithin

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Michael Chertoff

AlonePainMistakePeopleSuffering

I loved working with Ed Zwick.

Tony Goldwyn

LovedWorking

Being given a terrible piece of information shouldn't ruin the interactions you have with the people around you or mean that you can't become something, even if it's not the idea of what you thought you were going to be.

Rose McIver

PeopleThoughtYouInformationMean

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

Russell Smith

WomenGenderClothesBeyondRight

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

Russell Brand

TruthPeopleWindowsOutBecause

I don't necessarily always feel happy when I'm skating.

Mirai Nagasu

HappyFeelSkatingAlways

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Louise Brown

BookImpactPersonalProfoundSingle

I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

DJ Khaled

VisionSayingEnergyArtistKnow

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

HistoryDeathCivilizationMatter

Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we'd raise it one month a year for 25 years when we're all living longer, and living better lives.

Chris Christie

AgeMeRetirementBetterYearYou

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

Corazon Aquino

SadSimplePeopleStoryTellJust

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

Bret Stephens

StrongThinkGenerationEveryone

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