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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The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
