Dan Simmons Quotes
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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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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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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
