Orson Scott Card Quotes
Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.
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Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.
