"The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try."

-- Orson Scott Card

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“Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.”
“I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ?”
“The only thing that helps me keep faith is to stay in the truth of love because when you love someone - or many people - you believe in them and you believe in who they are and what they can do...then your belief has to go to an eternal presence because when you really care for someone you can't bear the thought of never seeing them again. You want that mystery of eternity to be real.”

Source : "Catching up with Mother Dolores Hart as the Hollywood star-turned-Catholic nun reflects on her book tour, the possibility of a movie and Pope Francis". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.”

Source : Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God”, p.317, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.”
“I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.”

Source : "Peralta plan: Biz, Ed, Jobs - Boro's 1st Hispanic state lawmaker eager to start" by Donald Bertrand, November 07, 2002.
“I'm blessed that I am recognized.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

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