Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah -
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien -
I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
Rachel Bilson -
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
Lady Gaga -
Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
Randy Falco
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde -
When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.
Warwick Davis -
I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'
Garth Nix -
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
Wayne Gretzky -
I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing!
Yvette Nicole Brown
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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
Harper Lee -
She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
M. John Harrison -
The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them.
Colin Kaepernick -
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.
Emily Procter -
No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.
Bob McDonnell
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Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
Nicki Minaj -
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde -
If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
Dan Brown -
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
Daniel Barenboim -
It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.
Pete Wilson -
I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood
Scott Westerfeld