Dan Simmons Quotes
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.
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I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.
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It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.
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The past depends on the angle from which it is seen and from which it has been lived.
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I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.
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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.