Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.
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Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
