"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

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"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."

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"In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song."

Petula Clark, British Musician

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"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself."

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"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."

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"I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard."

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"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

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"It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around."

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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

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"Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."

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"So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other."

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"The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."

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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

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