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'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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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
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I try to perform at the highest level every spring. It's a chance to prove yourself in front of the office and a chance to assert yourself in front of coaches with every club. This year is no different.
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Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting subject in itself, full of passionate encounters, contradictory judgments, striking discoveries, and unexpected reversals.
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We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
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If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
