Dan Simmons Quotes
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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You know there’s no advantage to be gained by murdering idiots-it doesn’t teach the idiot anything and it might give onlookers the idea that you take them seriously.
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I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.
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For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.
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When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
