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Dan Simmons

"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."

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Donna Grant

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Donna Grant

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."

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Donna Grant

"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."

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Donna Grant

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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Donna Grant

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

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Donna Grant

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Donna Grant

"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."

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Donna Grant

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."

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Donna Grant

"Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us."

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"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."

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Dan Simmons
"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."

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Dan Simmons
"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."

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Dan Simmons
"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."

School

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Dan Simmons
"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"

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Dan Simmons
"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."

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Dan Simmons
"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."

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Dan Simmons
"But it's not just a game of finding literary references."

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

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Dan Simmons
"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."

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Dan Simmons
"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."

Writing

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