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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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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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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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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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 was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
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I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
