Orson Scott Card Quotes
People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.
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The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.
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I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!
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Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.
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People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
