Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
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I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
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I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.
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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
