Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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I grew up in the church.
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It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it.
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While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
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I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.
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I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity or desirability of Hindu-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the Muslim leaders. But what about the injunctions of the Koran and Hadis? The leaders cannot over-ride them. Are we then doomed? I hope not. I hope your learned mind and wise head will find some way out of this difficulty.
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There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
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Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.
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It's so rare when marketing and press doesn't ruin your movie.
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It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
