Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
Quotes to Explore
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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I'm metrics-based.
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
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My childhood taught me nothing... zero.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
