Orson Scott Card Quotes
I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
