Dan Simmons Quotes
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
-
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
-
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
-
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.
-
Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
-
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
-
When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
-
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
-
When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
-
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?'
-
Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
-
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
-
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.
-
In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
-
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
-
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
-
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
-
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
-
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
-
It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
-
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
