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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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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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 had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
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Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.
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I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
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...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
