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.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus
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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
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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
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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
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
Marat Safin
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
Tamsin Greig
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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
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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
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
Yoko Ono
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
Quavo Migos
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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
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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
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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
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin
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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
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What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
Luc Montagnier
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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
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There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
Matt Drudge
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Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided.
Yair Lapid
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
Banksy
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You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.
Burna Boy
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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