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GAIL SIMMONS You don't get second chances in the real world.
GAIL SIMMONS I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. Fo...
GAIL SIMMONS Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
GAIL SIMMONS Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors sh...
GAIL SIMMONS I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that...
GAIL SIMMONS I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
GAIL SIMMONS Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
GAIL SIMMONS I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have...
GAIL SIMMONS It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, b...
GAIL SIMMONS I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself...
GAIL SIMMONS One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don'...
JAKE SIMMONS I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an ...
GENE SIMMONS I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
GENE SIMMONS It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
DAN SIMMONS Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the histor...
DAN SIMMONS No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
DAN SIMMONS As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district ...
DAN SIMMONS I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
DAN SIMMONS But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their ow...
DAN SIMMONS But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
DAN SIMMONS It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
DAN SIMMONS There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in an...
DAN SIMMONS The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon t...
DAN SIMMONS Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and no...
DAN SIMMONS It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writi...
DAN SIMMONS