Orson Scott Card Quotes
'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
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I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
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The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
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By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.
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I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
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'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
