Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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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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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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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I always leave a box of unsalted almonds in my house. A handful of those are a good snack that should keep you satisfied.
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I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
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I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.
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A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
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Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.
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Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.
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I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
