Orson Scott Card Quotes
God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I do not like violence.
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I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time - and they really adapted to the reality they found in Virginia.
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My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
