Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.
Quotes to Explore
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I started out doing musicals.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.
