Dan Simmons Quotes
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
