Orson Scott Card Quotes
What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
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Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
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What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
