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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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
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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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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
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I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
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Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)
