Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.
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Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!
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It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?
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Hard work's a good distraction.
