Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
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'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
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They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
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If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?
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It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.
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What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
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Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.
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You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Cuando no ando en las nubes, ando como perdido.
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All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That's what's most important to me.
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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.
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The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
