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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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 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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The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.
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Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.
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Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.
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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
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It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.
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Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
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He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
