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.
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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.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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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.
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He is energetic only in evading responsibility.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.
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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.'
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Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.
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It is my job to step into different characters.
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Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
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Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.
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That excitement on the court, I'm the same way off the court. I like to have fun, meet people; I like to give high-fives to the kids courtside. Just have fun. That's kind of my personality, that's how I've been.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.
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I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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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.
