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 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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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.
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If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.
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I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
