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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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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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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Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.
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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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My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
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Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
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One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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So pretty i had to eat him
