Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
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We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited.
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
