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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One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.
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We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
