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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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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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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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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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'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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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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In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
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I like shows where, like, there's a team that they're against the world.
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As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.
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I study Torah all the time.
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Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy's Law: ' If anything can go wrong, it will.' But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker's law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'
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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.
