Orson Scott Card Quotes
Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
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When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.
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I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
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Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
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Any individual entity that pretends to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.
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I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?
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Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
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I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn’t have to brag about it.
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For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.
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Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
