Elizabeth Bear Quotes
Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
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Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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If Morrissey could be a singer, then anybody could.
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We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.
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Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.
