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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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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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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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.
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When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.
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All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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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.
