Dan Simmons Quotes

He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Know

• I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Media
  • YouTube

• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • Hard
  • Grow

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Black
  • Reading

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Done
  • Confidence
  • Lose

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Help
  • Realize

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • People
  • Power
  • Free

• We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Guy

• If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day. I get up, go to my computer, write, turn it off, and go to bed. That is a Clarkson day.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Up
  • Writing

• Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

  

  Gene Fowler
  • Writing
  • Running

• Currently, my machines are black and sometimes gentle, if not sexy or exuding a contained violence; I finally found the technical means for accomplishing this.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Black
  • Violence
  • Sexy

• Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

  

  Peter Farrelly
  • Different
  • Important
  • Feeling

• He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.

  

  Dan Simmons
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