Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'
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I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.
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I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
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Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.
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Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.
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A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
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To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
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We will win with character, not with characters.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Some bridges, once crossed, will change you forever.
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War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other - and love. That espirit de corps sustained us.
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Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.
