Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.
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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.
