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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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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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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I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.
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You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
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The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.
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What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.
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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.
