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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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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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 grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you're doing at all times - it can be a little stressful at times.
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Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.
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My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.
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You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.
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So pretty i had to eat him
