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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What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.
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When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
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The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
