Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!
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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.