Dan Simmons Quotes
While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
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I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
