Orson Scott Card Quotes
To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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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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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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Have a nice doomsday.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
