Elizabeth Bear Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.
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I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
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Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I see a lot of his vulnerability, his sensitivity and his insecurity.
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...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
