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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Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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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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At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.
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When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.
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Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.
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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
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If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!
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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
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Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
