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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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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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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Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
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My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.
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I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
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I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
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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.