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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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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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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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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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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The Bible is a seemingly inexhaustible source of practical wisdom that could serve as a valuable resource for everyday living.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
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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.
