Orson Scott Card Quotes
That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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I don't like to look a man in the eye.
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I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.
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I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.
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That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
