Elizabeth Bear Quotes
The way I saw it, nobody thought the worse of a man who followed his pecker anywhere it sniffed, like a droopy-faced hound dog led on by his nose. So why a woman did the same should be judged different… well, women always is.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
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I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
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The way I saw it, nobody thought the worse of a man who followed his pecker anywhere it sniffed, like a droopy-faced hound dog led on by his nose. So why a woman did the same should be judged different… well, women always is.
