Elizabeth Bear Quotes
As any parent can tell you, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They’re probably doing something they don’t want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they’ll hide the evidence.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
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I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.
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I love In-N-Out!
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I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
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My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
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I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.
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Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.
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I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
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As any parent can tell you, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They’re probably doing something they don’t want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they’ll hide the evidence.
