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

• 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.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Family
  • Giving

• 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

• If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Brother

• I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Success

• England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

  

  Kevin Ayers
  • Education
  • Unique

• I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Effort
  • Republicans
  • Vietnam

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

  

  Orson Scott Card