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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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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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 coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.
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A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
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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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I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
