Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I'm a proud family man.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.
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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair Mews at his knee for dainty fare; Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. In the dewy fields the cattle lie Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky; Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
