Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

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• Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

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• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

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• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

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• The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

  

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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

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• You can't just let nature run wild.

  

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• If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

  

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• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  

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• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

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• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

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• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
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• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

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• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

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• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

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• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  

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• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

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• Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

  

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• I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

  

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• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  

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