Dan Simmons Quotes
The future is never written...only penciled in.
Dan Simmons
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
J. B. Pritzker
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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.
Jack Huston
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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.
Caitlin Fitzgerald
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
Orson Welles
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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.
Varley O'Connor
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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.
Beau Willimon
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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...'
Isaac Asimov
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
J. B. Pritzker
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
Quincy Jones
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
Idina Menzel
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El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
Antonio Porchia
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There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.
Jimmy Iovine
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I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
Ann Cotton
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'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore.
Joanne Rowling
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
Gaston Bachelard
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
Dan Simmons
