Mona Simpson Quotes
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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When my parents were like, 'We're going to the Northwest,' I thought, 'You've gotta be kidding me.' I was so depressed. The cold weather really did not agree with me. When I moved back down to L.A. at 16, I felt like it was home - it was where I belonged.
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I don't want advantages for my team. I want the same rest as our opponents. It's very difficult to do this? I don't think so.
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I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
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There's always times when, the organization, we're losing 90 games at a time, and it always feels like we're developing players. But you just continue to grind and continue to do your job.
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I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.
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I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?
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It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.
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I did karate for years and years and years.
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I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.
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In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.
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Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.
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He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
