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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There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
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When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
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It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
