Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
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I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.' You didn't realize there was a restaurant behind the door.
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I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
