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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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 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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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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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.
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I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.
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In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
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Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
