Elizabeth Bear Quotes
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
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It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'
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I can't remember what my first script was.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
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Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.
