Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feigned deaths to die.
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Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
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Vim coeli reserate viri: venit agnita ad usus:Ignotae videas commoda nulla rei.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
