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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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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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.
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
