Elizabeth Bear Quotes
You’d never break this one. You’d never even bend her. She’d die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.
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It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
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One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.
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Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.
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You’d never break this one. You’d never even bend her. She’d die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.
