Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Art isn’t really about raw unmediated access to reality: that’s reality. You get that at the bus stop. Art is about interpreting reality, pointing up certain aspects of it, focusing attention.

Elizabeth Bear

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Political

• The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Reality

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Acting

• For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Attention
  • Serious
  • Young

• We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Leader

• Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Know

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I've earned a living doing.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Bad
  • Attention

• Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Reality
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important
  • Attention

• What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Attention

• I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Attention

• There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Attention
  • Ugly

• For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • Life
  • Art
  • Game

• The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Reality

• Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Trying
  • Emotional

• Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

  

  Allen Tate
  • Live
  • Sleep
  • Sea

• I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Fear

• Art isn’t really about raw unmediated access to reality: that’s reality. You get that at the bus stop. Art is about interpreting reality, pointing up certain aspects of it, focusing attention.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Bus stop