Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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I like being by myself.
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
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I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
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There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'
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It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
