Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
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A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?
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Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
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People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
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Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.
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Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.
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All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.
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I've seen all the Judd Apatow movies, and I'd love to have a really funny little part in one of them some day.
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It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
