Mona Simpson Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
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In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
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I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
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The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'
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Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
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For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
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I try to drink a bottle of water a day, and I love Kiwi Strawberry Snapple.
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War is just an effect, not a cause.
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We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
