Orson Scott Card Quotes
Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.

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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
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Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.