Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.
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'Black with hate,' said Becca. 'You are gathering your people with hate.''Can you imagine conducting a war with love?' asked Ta-Kumsaw.'That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,' she said gently.
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I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in mind, whether it's a certain time or certain distance or a specific heart-rate goal, and then I am done.
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It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
