Scott Westerfeld Quotes

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

Scott Westerfeld

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• For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.

  

  Hailey Bieber
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• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

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• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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• Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.

  

  Bianca Walkden
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• Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
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• I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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• Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

  

  Jo Stafford

• A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy

• A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

  

  Penn Jillette
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• Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
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• The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

  

  Kim Yuna
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• I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

  

  Jon Scieszka
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• I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.

  

  Kanye West
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• Professionally, I'm proud that Glassjaw has gotten to this moment, and that Justin Beck and I are making another record and some zany things are going on. It's on the tip of my tongue all day every day, between the press and the experience of putting ourselves out there, and putting our personalities out there to be judged and to have amassed a whole unit of music, and how it's really a celebration of our friendship. I'm really proud of it.

  

  Daryl Palumbo
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• I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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• Then there's your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces... anything that's nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It's amazing how quickly you get into it. There's also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously... about two litres a day.

  

  Tom Hardy
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• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  

  Yoko Ono
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• She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Feels
  • Cutting
  • Knives