Orson Scott Card Quotes
There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
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It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
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On the fifth day following the murder of the ship's officers, land was sighted by the lookout. Whether island or mainland, Black Michael did not know, but he announced to Clayton that if investigation showed that the place was habitable he and Lady Greystoke were to be put ashore with their belongings.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.
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We have to accept the idea that Europe will be made on a two-speed basis, with a union based on solidarity and differentiation.
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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
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Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
