Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
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No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.
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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
