Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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What you see is what you get.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
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Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.
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Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one
