Elizabeth Bear Quotes
We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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I don't want to be submerged by depression.
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Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
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We smooch hardcore.
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I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.
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We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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I stay out of the sun; it's terrible for the skin of any woman over 35. If you must have a suntan, at least keep moving while you're in the sun.
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A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.
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It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.
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Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning.
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Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.
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What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.
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It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn.
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The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is.
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We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.
