Elizabeth Bear Quotes

If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little.

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Math is one of my favorite subjects.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Math
  • Favorite
  • Subjects

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Book
  • Looking
  • Back

• He is energetic only in evading responsibility.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Responsibility

• Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Moments

• A film can reach only the places which the distributor has promised you. Several films are not released internationally, and Web has that wide reach.

  

  Ali Fazal

• I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Mind

• We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Beautiful
  • Alien

• In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Drawing
  • Paris

• Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Sports

• It is my job to step into different characters.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Different
  • Job

• Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

  

  Annie Baker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Personality

• Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Learning

• The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Trouble
  • Wishing

• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Rock

• To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • People
  • Wish
  • Attitude

• If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Thinking
  • Masters
  • Vanity