Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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So far this year at least, we have been turning the ball over and we have not been getting turnovers. That formula will kill you.
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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
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Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.
