Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff -
A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
Sam Shepard -
I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett -
Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
Abbi Jacobson
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
Wendell Willkie -
If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
Daisaku Ikeda -
We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
Taylor Negron -
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza -
When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
Walter Savage Landor
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Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.
Warren Farrell -
We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
Adam Gopnik -
Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
Anne Baxter -
In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.
James Wolk -
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
Albert Brooks -
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
Charice Pempengco
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The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.
Emeril Lagasse -
I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain things.
John Rocha -
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
Michael Caine -
Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.
Muhtar Kent -
'Well,' he said. 'Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.'
Ursula K. Le Guin