Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.
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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.
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What's important is for us to be aware that our actions have repercussions.
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How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
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I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.
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Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
