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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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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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in Kenya and Africa as an example of the kind of talent the continent holds.
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That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.
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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
