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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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
