Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin
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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.
Zadie Smith
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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.
Natasha Calis
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis
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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.
Maggie Stiefvater
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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.
Camille Paglia
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
Pankaj Mishra
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.
Rachel Hartman
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When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.
John Darnielle
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All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
Ursula K. Le Guin
