Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?
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Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.
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Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
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You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
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I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
