Dan Simmons Quotes
Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
