Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
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Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
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They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.
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There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'