Dan Simmons Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I've been training quite hard.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.
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One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Art should not be an easy thing.
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It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
