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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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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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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Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.
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When we shift our perception, our experience changes.
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Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
