Dan Simmons Quotes
There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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Dream and you shall become.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
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I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
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I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.
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Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
