Orson Scott Card Quotes
How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
Quotes to Explore
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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No two wars are identical.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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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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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.
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Choreography is writing on your feet.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
