Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
