Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier.
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'Aye. Like knows like, sister'
