Elizabeth Bear Quotes
I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic; after all, novelists are rarely involved in the process.
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I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.
