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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I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
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I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make - I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there's always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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I absolutely loved basketball. All I ever wanted to do was play basketball.
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We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
