Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.
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Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
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A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
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Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.
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I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
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I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.
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Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
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Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.
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Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
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Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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So pretty i had to eat him
