Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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You know, we can make a game interesting.
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For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
