Orson Scott Card Quotes
'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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I love daal chawal. I am not a restaurant person. I enjoy home food a lot.
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When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.
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Elizabeth Moon's antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.
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No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.
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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
