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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The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
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Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.
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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
