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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
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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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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.
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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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Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
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He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.
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Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
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We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination
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I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
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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.
