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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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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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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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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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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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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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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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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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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In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.'
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I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.
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Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and think, 'Oh, that's life. That's how I experience it.'
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At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
