Mona Simpson Quotes
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
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There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
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Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
