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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Although I wrote as an anthropologist rather than as a professional historian, I think history matters. It is also important to understand how an why these systems develop and extend their sway over people, and I located the rationale in the ways power and the economy sustain and drive each other on.
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Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
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We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
