Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SmileGreatTravelLieLiarProud

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Joanne Harris

FutureGreatChildMeYouStrange

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

Andy Garcia

LifeLearnYouSayWayWatching

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Max Weber

ConcreteMarkBearsDirectEvery

Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.

Jeff Buckley

MindImpossibleThinkSomedayJust

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Sia

PeopleMePersonMeetRealStage

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Rose Byrne

WorkRejectionLessonFastActor

I never wanted to compete on price in my history because on price, you don't always win.

Mickey Drexler

HistoryWinYouPriceNeverCompete

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Joy Page

DreamsYourselfYouChooseDream

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

Joshua Foer

WorkLookingYouBackBrooklynNew

My friends and I did one of those 'Who's Hot and Who's Not' lists. Every school has those, and now they are online, which makes it even worse. It was one of those moments that I look back on a lot, and think that was horrible.

Jay Asher

SchoolThinkFriendsMomentsLook

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

Jonathan Safran Foer

WriteNeedAlwaysOutSomething

'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

DJ Khaled

BrokenPeopleBlessedYouPersonal

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