Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Technological change always accelerates. It never stagnates over time. Which means we are going to face the fact that, if nothing in the States changes, we will find ourselves dependent on other countries for almost everything that can and will be manufactured in a quickly approaching future.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
