Mona Simpson Quotes
In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.
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I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.
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Documentaries make a difference.
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
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Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.
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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
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People think hip-hop is evil, but it's sometimes the people making hip-hop that are evil. The genre isn't wicked, but the people in it are.
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I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.
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If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world itself. It's not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
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In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.
