Orson Scott Card Quotes
He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I never thought anything like that would have gone on.
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Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate, even more than my innocence.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
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He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
