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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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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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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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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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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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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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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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
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I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.
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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.
