Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
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Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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Who can control his fate?
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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It’s funny how one summer can change everything.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
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I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
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I believe in hard work and good decisions and the rest it will come or it doesn't.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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There's a fire starting in my heart.
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I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).
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Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
