Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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If I'm happy with what I'm putting out and proud of it - that is becoming enough for me. It's testing myself, but I'm ready to do it, whereas I wasn't ready before. Sometimes it's feigned confidence, but if I make a decision, I can do anything.
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I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.
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There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.
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Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
