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Dan Simmons Quotes

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1948

Topics

Being Writer Even Knew Before

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Mind Me Philosophy Psychology Means

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

Women Woman Baby More Women Are

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

Music People Musicians Rock Reaction

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

Truth Men Woman Man Leaf Truth Is

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

Law Wish You Nothing Way Write

As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade.

Michael Paterniti

Me Behavior Bad Kid Reason Bunny

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

I Am Understanding Everyday Try Seem

Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron'... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life.

Domhnall Gleeson

Life Great Look Career Way Batman

When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I was doing Marvel's 'Batman,' and Reverend Achebe became sort of the Joker to Panther's Batman.

Christopher Priest

Angry Me Writing Black Doing Never

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

Children Poetry Book Want Write

It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.

Family Good Friend Daughter Sister

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Happiness Pain Joy People Brain Now

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