Dan Simmons Quotes
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
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I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
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I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
