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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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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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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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 hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.
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The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.
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I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
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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.
