Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
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In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
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I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.
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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
