Dan Simmons Quotes
In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Respect the burden.
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In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'
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My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.
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England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
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There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
