Dan Simmons Quotes
It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.

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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.
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Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.