Orson Scott Card Quotes
I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.
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Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
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The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was 'Waltz With Bashir,' or 'The Gatekeepers,' or '5 Broken Cameras.'
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
