Orson Scott Card Quotes
We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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Social media... it's the future for the new generation.
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
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I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
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I want people to realize that they can dream big.
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So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
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Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
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That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
