Dan Simmons Quotes
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
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I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
