Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
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Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.
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The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.
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Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
