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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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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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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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.
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People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'
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If you get married, you become vulnerable.
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Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
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Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
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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.
