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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The gadding vine.
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The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.
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Our long national nightmare might not be over, but who knows -- maybe it's the beginning of the end of it.
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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.
