Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani, is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
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After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal (sic) which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.
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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
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For me, beauty really does come from within, and that may sound cliche, but it's true.
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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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You have to give your fans and your children something they can use in life.
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
