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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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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I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.
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The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray this experience. One must surrender entirely to the power of one s artistic nature. It will do all the necessary things. Do not impose any solution upon yourself in advance. The quality to develop in an actor is courage.
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Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.
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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.
