Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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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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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
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From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
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I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
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Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.
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As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
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' workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings.'
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
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Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.
