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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
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
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You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
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If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
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