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.

Elizabeth Bear

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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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• 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?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • History
  • Nation
  • Most

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• 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.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Long
  • Art
  • Job

• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Find
  • Depression
  • Silver

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Child
  • Deserve

• 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.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Song
  • Words

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Writing
  • Author

• I love In-N-Out!

  

  Charli XCX

• 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.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

  

  Albert Oehlen
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Competition between men is a fuel that's useful to us. We have to be careful that it doesn't tell the same story over too many times, but it's amazing how durable that story is.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • Men
  • Amazing
  • Competition

• A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

  

  John Sandford

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Kids
  • Eyes
  • Parent