Dan Simmons Quotes
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
