Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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My life is better with every year of living it.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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We're just like a regular family.
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
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Self-fulfillment and Growth are some of the most courageous acts on this planet
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I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system, but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune.
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.
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I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
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When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
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I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
