Orson Scott Card Quotes
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
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When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going around taking pictures, and people hopefully don't recognize me. But sometimes they do, and then I'll do a photo for them, too.
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It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for generations to come.
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I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
