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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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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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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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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I felt all kinds of pressure on myself...I didn't want to disappoint anybody. But that is nothing that compares to someone dealing with a health issue, so my shit is no big deal.
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When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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Investment banks are increasingly using their own balance sheets to extend credit to clients, to assume market risk on their behalf and sometimes to co-invest alongside them. Investment banking serves as the main initial point of contact with all of Goldman Sachs for our clients.
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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.
