Elizabeth Bear Quotes

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

Elizabeth Bear

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Business
  • Never
  • Brand

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Story
  • Daughter

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Father
  • Interest

• I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Come
  • Figure
  • Publicity

• I don't know how many girls have felt support through my persona. I'm a girl power. So many girls tell me I'm a girl power, and yes, I am.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Power
  • Girl
  • Support

• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here – is – away from the easel – into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting...

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Today
  • Taken

• Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15.

  

  Pat Roberts

• My work is always very geometric.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Work

• I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Long
  • Party

• You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Courage
  • Forgive
  • Sentimentality

• For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Time
  • Space

• If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • May

• What I do is I remove my makeup every night, use a little bit of Vitamin C serum, and that's it, pretty much. Of course, I use my 3D White products!

  

  Shakira
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Makeup

• We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Pretty
  • Son
  • King

• Sometimes teams have printed tickets in advance or have other concerns. We're very sensitive to the great partnerships we have.

  

  John Britton
  • Great
  • Teams
  • Advance

• I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.

  

  David Foster
  • Good
  • Career
  • Success

• There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It's like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.

  

  SZA
  • Up
  • Different
  • Black

• The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Son
  • Scripture
  • Monsters