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.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1972

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I want to be a good human being.

Jeremy Renner

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For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

John Cho

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You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

John Oates

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Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why? Looking back, does he believe he might have chosen a better course?

Stephen Kinzer

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I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.

Michael McKean

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I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.

Michael Keaton

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I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

Louise Erdrich

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When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

Dick Durbin

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We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.

Poo Bear

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To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Phyllis Theroux

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It's never the plan to be tentative.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

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