Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
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The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.
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Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.
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My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
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It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
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If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
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One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone.
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The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.
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I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.
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Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
