Orson Scott Card Quotes
'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
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I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.
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Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.
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In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.
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When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.
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I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.
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War is a great asshole magnet.
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All publicity isn't good publicity. As a New York publicist put it: 'What: the guy's an asshole so I'll go and buy his novel?'
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The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'
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I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'
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'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.
