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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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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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
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World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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.
