Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
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It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.
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He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough.
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How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.
