Elizabeth Bear Quotes
Maybe all obligate carnivores are essentially the same. Can I eat that? Is it going to eat me? Is it a toy?
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it.
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Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
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I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.
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My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.
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It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.
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People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.
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Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
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I know what I do. I know what I put on film. I know what I try to do. I don't want to talk about what I've done.
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Maybe all obligate carnivores are essentially the same. Can I eat that? Is it going to eat me? Is it a toy?
