Orson Scott Card Quotes
Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.
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I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.
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If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?
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My son, Tony Vincent, is a stuntman. He doubles for Jim Caviezel on 'Person of Interest.' He works really hard.
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Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
