Dan Simmons Quotes
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
Walt Mossberg
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
P. J. Soles
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
Saint-John Perse
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
Rachel Kushner
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
Gabourey Sidibe
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.
Dominique Moceanu
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A lot of women say, 'I look good thanks to magic creams,' but that's a joke.
Brigitte Nielsen
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
Zig Ziglar
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The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.
Ayn Rand
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
