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Paolo Koeljo

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I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.
BIRDY
Paolo showed that he can play from the start and that he can provide a real alternative. Now the oth...
FELIX MAGATH
Paolo showed that he can put in a performance even when he starts the game and he is another option....
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Many Brazilian landfills, such as Bandeirantes, double up as power plants. So instead of causing fur...
MICHAEL STERN
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation beh...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
I watch a lot of football.
PAOLO SORRENTINO
I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
PAOLO SORRENTINO
Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
PAOLO SORRENTINO
I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because peo...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
PAOLO SORRENTINO
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are withou...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
PAOLO SORRENTINO
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old,...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have ...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty...
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the p...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are trigger...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathe...
PAOLO SORRENTINO
I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.
PAOLO SORRENTINO
Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but th...
PAOLO GENTILONI
I know that many in Germany think we have a merry financial policy over here.
PAOLO GENTILONI
If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian governme...
PAOLO GENTILONI
I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the st...
PAOLO GENTILONI
Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
PAOLO GENTILONI
I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian Pr...
PAOLO GENTILONI
I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure t...
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a...
PAOLO GENTILONI
On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decisi...
PAOLO GENTILONI
Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
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I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say,...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other le...
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI
I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed soc...
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were...
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genet...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidd...
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily awa...
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to ea...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short st...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at t...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be ni...
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no ...
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impa...
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I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smo...
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred...
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conve...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially scien...
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected ...
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it...
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI
If it is true that there is an origin of language and if it is true that the origin of language is o...
PAOLO BARTOLONI
You can fall ill with just a memory.
PAOLO GIORDANO
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.
PAOLO GIORDANO
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.
PAOLO GIORDANO
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's...
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u...
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For a second, Americans could still feel like big swinging dicks. Solidarity, baby.
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.
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He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she ...
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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone e...
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Instead of preaching the importance of happiness, be happy and people will follow your example.
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Desperate people did desperate things, became avatars of unexpected tragedy.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Or maybe there never were any rules. Maybe all we have are habits. Things we do without even knowing...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting.
PAOLO BONAIUTI
All those who are using Venice for their own interests must make a contribution to preserve the myth...
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They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed s...
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They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating ar...
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I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured...
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The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors a...
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Pure data. You don’t believe data—you test data.” He grimaced. “If I could put my finger on ...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Entrambi respirarono un po' di quell'affetto che ancora resisteva tra di loro, diluito
lungo ce...
PAOLO GIORDANO
Neither side reached 50 percent (in the lower house) and the margin is under 25,000 votes. Such a ti...
PAOLO BONAIUTI
Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.
PAOLO BONAIUTI
The electoral campaign has begun.
PAOLO BONAIUTI
Here it comes, right in time for the election, the vote of the Milan prosecutors' office.
PAOLO BONAIUTI
Seeing as there's such a narrow gap between the two we demand that a scrupulous verification of the ...
PAOLO BONAIUTI
Such a narrow difference demands that there be a careful verification of the vote count.
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The idea made Mahlia’s chest tighten. It was her own fantasy, the secret one she sometimes curled ...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Her father would return from China. He’d come back with all his soldiers. He’d pick her up in hi...
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She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.
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Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get...
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I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best...
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Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at al...
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The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by...
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Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swan...
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I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day t...
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Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting.
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Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.
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The electoral campaign has begun.
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Here it comes, right in time for the election, the vote of the Milan prosecutors' office.
PAOLO BONAIUTI
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI
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CONNOR PAOLO
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI
I thought the long summer holidays would have helped me but instead when I started to train I felt w...
PAOLO MALDINI
Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them...
PAOLO MAURENSIG
Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Doctors described Jonah as having poor impulse control, which basically meant that Jonah's entire wo...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
What the hell are those?" Zach pushed at my foot with his finger.

"My boots."

...
THERESA PAOLO
If only there was mouthwash for the brain. Brain wash. They could make a fortune on that stuff.
THERESA PAOLO
Soms krijg ik de indruk dat wij jonge mensen, die in het domein van strikte coherentie zijn opgevoed...
PAOLO GIORDANO
Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long a...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets start...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
He could leave as early as tomorrow. This is proof that the European anti- terrorism laws work.
PAOLO IORIO
People think that what I want is to get objects back, but I'm not a credit card recovery agency; I p...
PAOLO FERRI
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not go...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
I didn't think it would be this great. I didn't believe we could control the match in that way,
PAOLO DI CANIO
We will try and get the fans on our side,
PAOLO DI CANIO
It was a political sentence, it was an unjust decision. My gesture has nothing to do with political ...
PAOLO DI CANIO
I will avoid certain situations, but I will continue my battles, without second thoughts and with ev...
PAOLO DI CANIO
But I will continue my battle for liberty in other ways, with he help of the lawyers who assist me.
PAOLO DI CANIO
I will always salute that way because it gives me a sense of belonging to my people.
PAOLO DI CANIO
The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my f...
PAOLO DI CANIO
It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine
if my affections do not become
Love? Very mu...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
I am a fascist, not a racist.
PAOLO DI CANIO
I am fascist, not racist. I do the Roman (fascist) salute to greet our supporters and those who shar...
PAOLO DI CANIO
For to a boy it can seem
that he shall never have what he alone

has never had.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Total avoidance of alcohol, although optimum for cancer control, cannot be recommended in terms of b...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA
Given the linear dose-response relation between alcohol intake and risk of cancer, control of heavy ...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA
Alcohol is probably the main factor responsible for increased risk of head and neck cancer recorded ...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA
The most recent version of the European code against cancer recommends keeping daily consumption to ...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA
Alcohol is underestimated as a cause of cancer in many parts of the world.
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA
Total avoidance of alcohol, although optimum for cancer control, cannot be recommended in terms of b...
DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA
Given the linear dose-response relation between alcohol intake and risk of cancer, control of heavy ...
DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA
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DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA
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Alcohol is underestimated as a cause of cancer in many parts of the world.
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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
T’insegneranno a non splendere. E tu splendi, invece.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
I expect similar concept to pop up and the market will finally take off, probably sometime in 2005-2...
PIER PAOLO MUCELLI