Orson Scott Card Quotes
To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?That's how most men live, and don't even know it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
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When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that.
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I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.
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You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
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Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
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To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?That's how most men live, and don't even know it.
