Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I was an expert horseman.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.
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When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
