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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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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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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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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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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When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.
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Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
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My dad was the one who took me to concerts and introduced me to new artists. One time, he drove me from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., on a school night to see 'U2' - he was a pretty dedicated Bono fan.
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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.
