Orson Scott Card Quotes
There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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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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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
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You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark;
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There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.
