Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp -
I'm not much of a jokester.
Adam Baldwin -
I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Taylor Swift -
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
Valerie Simpson -
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
Mahershala Ali -
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
Taylor Hackford -
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
Basil Bunting -
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
Salman Rushdie -
Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Hannibal Buress -
I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
Garry Shandling
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I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
Dan Fogelberg -
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
Wadah Khanfar -
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
Sally Ride -
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
Victor Davis Hanson -
The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
Salman Rushdie -
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
Felix Baumgartner
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Stick with me, kids. It's about to get so good... -A
Sara Shepard -
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth -
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
Fiona Apple -
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Zadie Smith -
I think human societies tend to be problematic.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
Scott Westerfeld