Orson Scott Card Quotes
I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
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A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
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Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
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Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.
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I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
