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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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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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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Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
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That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
