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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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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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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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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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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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
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After you play a part, you think of it as your own.
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I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.
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I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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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.
