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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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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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
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Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.
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People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.
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Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
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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.
