Orson Scott Card Quotes
The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
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What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.
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My wife knows that I love her too much, so she is fine with the intimate scenes I do. She also knows that only if my role justifies such a scene will I do it. She understands my work as an actor.
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I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.
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For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.
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As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
