Orson Scott Card Quotes
I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
Orson Scott Card
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
Uday Kiran
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.
Dan Simmons
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Patrick Rothfuss
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When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
Elmer Rice
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If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.
Carl Zimmer
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There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
Paula Poundstone
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You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Joyce Meyer
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
Bebe Rexha
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
Orson Scott Card