Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.
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Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
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Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
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Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
