Orson Scott Card Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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I want my clients to trust me.
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I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.
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Those people who think they know the Gospel, and it doesn't have any meaning for them, they're the people we have to find a way to touch, to invite once again to the embrace of Christ.
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
