Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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It's really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There's no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can't relate to 'Atlanta.'
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.
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My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.
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I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.
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Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.
