Dan Simmons Quotes
Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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I always have stress.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
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Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
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I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually.
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Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.
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Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.
