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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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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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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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.
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I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
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People want to know everyone for a lot of different reasons. It doesn't have to be anything as big as an Oscar nomination. It could be a brand new job. People see their opportunity. And, when you're winning, everyone loves a winner.
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My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.
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I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.
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I do live a decently healthy life.
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
