Orson Scott Card Quotes
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.
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I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
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When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.
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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
