Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
-
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.
-
The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
-
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.
-
'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
-
'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
-
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
-
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.
-
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
-
I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.
-
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
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.
-
I like being by myself.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
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.
-
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
-
They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'
-
Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.
-
My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.
-
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
