Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.
Quotes to Explore
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
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It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.
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There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.
