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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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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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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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
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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.
