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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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
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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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My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
