Orson Scott Card Quotes

She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'

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• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
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• My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
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• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

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• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

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• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

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• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

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• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

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• Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

  

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• My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

  

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• Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

  

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• I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

  

  Feist
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• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

  

  Nancy Kress
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• The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

  

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• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

  

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• Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

  

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• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  

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• I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

  

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• Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

  

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• She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
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