Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
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I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.
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Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
