Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
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Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
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But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
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When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.
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Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
