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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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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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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A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordinary because of the people who have loved me. I say twilight because of what people say to me in the supermarket.
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I enjoy talking to fans.
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You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
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I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.
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When I was young, I thought Kim il-Sung or Kim Jong-il is hero.
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What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?
