Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
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I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.
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Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
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When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'
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So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.
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Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.
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People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.
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I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.
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I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)
