Scott Westerfeld Quotes
It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I hate negative ads in general.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.
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I'm a terrible procrastinator.
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CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.
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I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
