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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The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.
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Throwing water balloons wakes you up!
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Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.
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Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.
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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.
