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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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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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English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity.
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Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
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Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.
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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.
