Orson Scott Card Quotes

I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.

Orson Scott Card

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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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Women
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Government
  • Late

• 'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Voice
  • Started
  • Positivity

• My witness is the empty sky.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Witness

• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • You
  • Dull

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • People
  • Long
  • Joy

• New York's definitely got my heart.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Heart
  • New
  • Got

• When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Play
  • Fascinated

• 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.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Job
  • Day
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Hero

• You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Chair

• Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.

  

  Ian Holm
  • God
  • She
  • Hope

• Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• There are really three parts to the album, and there's, like, quite a lot of hip-hop on there. I guess it is a worry that people who love 'Human' might think they're buying the album and that's a blueprint for it, but it's definitely not. Hopefully they'll be pleasantly surprised.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Album
  • Hip Hop
  • Human

• If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Guy
  • English
  • Wrong

• There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • Process
  • Favorite
  • Paper

• Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Knowledge
  • Financial

• I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.

  

  Orson Scott Card