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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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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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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I don't want to live on past records.
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When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
