Dan Simmons Quotes
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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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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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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I've made sure I am working hard enough to get that lead and keep it there.
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The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
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I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at it through images, artfully curated. Facebook came at it through friends, cunningly organized. Dropbox came to it via files, cleverly clouded.
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While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.
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Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
