Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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You exist only in what you do.
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
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I'd never discuss anything confidential.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.
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Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.
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And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.
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I've figured out the secret. Your mind is your power; you have to work with your mind and work with your own thoughts about your own life. If you spend so much time thinking, "This industry is male-dominated. It's sexist. It's this. It's that," then that's what the picture will always be. I remember when I was coming up, I didn't have those thoughts. My mom told me I could be whatever I wanted to be and I could be as bright of a star as I was meant to be. So, that's where I put all of my focus and my thought...into what I could do. And I carry that with me now.
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For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
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I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
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Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
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The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
