Orson Scott Card Quotes
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.
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Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
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I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing.
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I've become a little disillusioned with what's happening in the theatre just in the material that's been offered to me. I wish there was material that I responded to more. I can't make a living doing theatre. But I can't wait to come back. I'm doing a lot of film auditioning. I'm trying to make a transition into film. I'd like to see if I could have a little success in front of the camera.
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To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
