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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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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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 have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
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I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.
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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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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.
