Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
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Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd, Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
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Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
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Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
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I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.
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My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
