Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away, Once more within the Potter's house alone I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
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We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
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We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
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First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.
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I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
