Orson Scott Card Quotes
'Black with hate,' said Becca. 'You are gathering your people with hate.''Can you imagine conducting a war with love?' asked Ta-Kumsaw.'That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,' she said gently.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
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Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.
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People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
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Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
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'Black with hate,' said Becca. 'You are gathering your people with hate.''Can you imagine conducting a war with love?' asked Ta-Kumsaw.'That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,' she said gently.
