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A little drama wins more friends than boring.


Scott Westerfeld

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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
SCOTT WESTERFELD Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"

"Fragile?" Volger looked ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I kissed him once," she whispered.
"Well done. What did he do?"
"Um..." Deryn sighed. "He ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD What if destiny doesn't care?
SCOTT WESTERFELD I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Lace: "Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?"

Cal: "Um, mayb...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Lik...
SCOTT WESTERFELD There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you'...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.
REBECCA MCKINSEY Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
SCOTT WESTERFELD And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?'
Sure. I had to see it, you know...
SCOTT WESTERFELD If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
DAMIAN LEWIS In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, an...
MICHAEL IMPERIOLI Bubbly is bogus.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuf...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?"
"Poisoned pean...
SCOTT WESTERFELD America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
ADAM MANSBACH Wins are wins, and they're certainly looked at. Would we do something a little more for the wins — ...
BRIAN FRANCE How person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.
TOM KRAUSE Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales...
JOHN P. KOTTER It's a great atmosphere. Coach Scott is a little different than Coach Frank. Coach Scott lets you go...
MARC JACKSON I'm a girl."
When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of e...
SCOTT WESTERFELD There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.
PENG LIYUAN I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I ...
JAMES MCAVOY Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
RAM DASS It makes math and stuff more fun than writing on a boring chalkboard.
JOHN RUSSELL I'm overweight, despise change, and rarely, if ever, initiate anything. Unlike my friends, I’ve ha...
J.C. PATRICK Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
THOM FILICIA We discovered that the series really wants to be a comedy more than a drama.
DAVID E. KELLEY I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together...
PAUL WATSON But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
PATRICK GEDDES All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.
TAYE DIGGS It seems to be a law of nature that Republicans are more boring than Democrats
STEWART ALSOP It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along eve...
JOSEPH HELLER There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE To be honest, the campaign so far is more boring than dirty.
GADI BALTIANSKY The one who fails learn more than the one who wins.
KOWSALAPATHY Broadway has become a little bit more eclectic and less driven by book than maybe we would want it t...
STUART OKEN Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little mo...
JEANNETTE WALLS Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
JOHN BERRYMAN More than anything, we got a little swagger back up front. I think everybody can count on us and bel...
KYLE TATUM For Bill it was always more about character and integrity than wins and losses.
HARVEY SMITH Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real ...
ALEX BERENSON I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these...
DANA PERINO Sitcoms are more like stage drama than anything else on film - more than a one-hour and certainly mo...
THOMAS GIBSON Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. S...
KEVIN NASH Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or s...
EMINEM I need physics more than friends.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER It seemed like there was more drama and suspense than any other year I can remember.
BOBBY BOWDEN I took a rant-sized breath.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Those who leave thier friends are more than a trash!!!
KENT LOPEZ As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
SCOTT WESTERFELD You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Franklin pitched a great game. He struggled a little bit with the first couple batters. After that, ...
BILL RILEY I was always a little more talented than them. A little more athletic anyway.
KATIE MITCHELL Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her...
WILLIE PEARSON We haven't invested in the Mining Company, but I want to be friends with Scott because he knows a lo...
FRED WILSON He has managed to capture the particular aura that made even the poet's more mundane activities-of w...
JOHN GROSS Crazy is better than boring
SUPERNA BATHEJA You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
SCOTT WESTERFELD The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."
Work?" Tally said.
They both ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Her only way home was to betray her friend.
SCOTT WESTERFELD You're insane!" she shouted.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell m...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather sho...
SCOTT WESTERFELD The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Barking spiders!
SCOTT WESTERFELD Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.
SCOTT WESTERFELD I have no problem with commenters stating strong opinions, except for my usual annoyance with people...
SCOTT WESTERFELD And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.
SCOTT WESTERFELD When she awoke, the world was on fire.
SCOTT WESTERFELD I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete character...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
SCOTT WESTERFELD I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Hard work's a good distraction.
SCOTT WESTERFELD We don't always get to choose what we love.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean o...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Here's what I've learned about dogs: They're a lot like pretty girls. Having one or two around makes...
SCOTT WESTERFELD It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Freedom has a way of destroying things.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but yo...
SCOTT WESTERFELD People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hun...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
SCOTT WESTERFELD High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. Yo...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
SCOTT WESTERFELD I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Ring around the rosie.
A pocket full of posie.
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Some pe...
SCOTT WESTERFELD The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference betwee...
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Work?" Tally said.
They both ...
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SCOTT WESTERFELD You're insane!" she shouted.
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Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Lik...
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SCOTT WESTERFELD And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.
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When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of e...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete character...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
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SCOTT WESTERFELD Freedom has a way of destroying things.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but yo...
SCOTT WESTERFELD People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hun...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
SCOTT WESTERFELD High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. Yo...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
SCOTT WESTERFELD I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Ring around the rosie.
A pocket full of posie.
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Some pe...
SCOTT WESTERFELD The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference betwee...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a...
SCOTT WESTERFELD But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans. They toot their horns for anythi...
SCOTT WESTERFELD And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
SCOTT WESTERFELD I kissed him once," she whispered.
"Well done. What did he do?"
"Um..." Deryn sighed. "He ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
SCOTT WESTERFELD It's just programming"
"No. It's because I love him
SCOTT WESTERFELD What if destiny doesn't care?
SCOTT WESTERFELD Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"

"Fragile?" Volger looked ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of jou...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make m...
SCOTT WESTERFELD We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbi...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer s...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Volger looked out across the glacier, his hands deep in his pockets. "May I be frank?"
Alek lau...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' Th...
SCOTT WESTERFELD When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you'...
SCOTT WESTERFELD ...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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SCOTT WESTERFELD I took a rant-sized breath.
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SCOTT WESTERFELD That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Never bored on a hoverboard.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, ki...
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SCOTT WESTERFELD Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, ...
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SCOTT WESTERFELD The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
SCOTT WESTERFELD ...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do t...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
SCOTT WESTERFELD That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
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Sure. I had to see it, you know...
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SCOTT WESTERFELD She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Sprinkled across the black waters below were at least a hundred small boats set out to greet the ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."
Madeleine smiled as she stirre...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city."

"There are no limits in war,"...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good....
SCOTT WESTERFELD The man was allergic to sleep.
SCOTT WESTERFELD With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could i...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuf...
SCOTT WESTERFELD You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger."
"I have always considered ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD What happens when perfection isn't good enough?
SCOTT WESTERFELD The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way to...
SCOTT WESTERFELD I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
SCOTT WESTERFELD History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
SCOTT WESTERFELD He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Lace: "Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?"

Cal: "Um, mayb...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Do you promise?" He demanded again.
"I can't let you go, Alek." She said softly.
"You...wh...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Don't. Shoot. The air is full of hydrogen!
SCOTT WESTERFELD That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same.
"Barking spiders," she mutt...
SCOTT WESTERFELD But it won't be much of a battle, will it?" Alek asked. "What can an airship do to a pair of ironcla...
SCOTT WESTERFELD There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English."
"The word for what?"...
SCOTT WESTERFELD As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
SCOTT WESTERFELD That letter was your whole future, you daft prince."
"It was my past. I lost that the night my ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Writers can live everywhere. It’s our superpower.
SCOTT WESTERFELD You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
SCOTT WESTERFELD He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."
SCOTT WESTERFELD Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?"
"Poisoned pean...
SCOTT WESTERFELD It's just been a long week, that's all."
"It's monday night, Jess."
"My point exactly.
SCOTT WESTERFELD You fiddle lucker!' she cried.
SCOTT WESTERFELD What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happ...
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SCOTT WESTERFELD Jen's an impact player, a spoiled brat, a royal pain-in-the-ass, and she rewires me like nothing els...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Emperors are vain and useless things.
SCOTT WESTERFELD This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves
UGLIES, SCOTT WESTERFELD How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
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LUKE SCOTT When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy...
WILLARD SCOTT You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.
SCOTT REED Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work ...
BOBBY SCOTT The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
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TRAVIS SCOTT I know what my identity is.
TRAVIS SCOTT I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.
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TRAVIS SCOTT I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.
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TRAVIS SCOTT I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.
TRAVIS SCOTT You can't buy being a rock star.
TRAVIS SCOTT Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.
TRAVIS SCOTT I'm not a gangsta.
TRAVIS SCOTT 'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.
TRAVIS SCOTT A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.
TRAVIS SCOTT I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.
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TRAVIS SCOTT I'm La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.
TRAVIS SCOTT My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.
TRAVIS SCOTT I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.
TRAVIS SCOTT There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.
TRAVIS SCOTT Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.
TRAVIS SCOTT I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
RANDOLPH SCOTT Frankly, I don't like publicity.
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RANDOLPH SCOTT My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of...
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RANDOLPH SCOTT The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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WALTER SCOTT Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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WALTER SCOTT Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
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WALTER SCOTT Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
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RIDLEY SCOTT I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
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SCOTT HAZE The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
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