Orson Scott Card Quotes
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.
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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
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Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.
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What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.
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I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
