Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. The show is so fast-paced, and at first it was overwhelming, but at the same time was quite laid back.
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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
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A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
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The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
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When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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What a pity men didn’t gossip about their wives the way women did about their husbands, then they would soon learn that their own wife wasn’t the only one with shortcomings…
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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
