Scott Westerfeld Quotes
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
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I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
