Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
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So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.
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In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.
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What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?
