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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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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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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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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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 animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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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.
