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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Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!
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If we have not struggled as hard as we can at our strongest how will we sense the shape of our losses or know what sustains us longest or name what change costs us, saying how strange it is that one sector of the self can step in for another in trouble, how loss activates a latent double, how we can feed as upon nectar upon need?
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...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
